Ricardo Gonzalez

WordPress 2.5 introduces a widgetized dashboard featuring the latest comments and WordPress news.
This plugin creates a new widget for that dashboard that lists out the latest comments.
See Also: <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dashboard-widget-manager/" rel="ugc">Dashboard Widget Manager</a>
<h3>Credits</h3>
Inspired by <a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/dashboard-latest-spam/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dashboard: Latest Spam</a> by <a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Viper007Bond</a>

Dashboard: Recent Comments Extended

Widget for the WordPress 2.5+ dashboard to display the latest comments.

Corey Salzano

This plugin replaces the default recent comments widget so it behaves differently. Instead of the format “username on post title,” the widget will display “username said comment excerpt.”
All development happens on Github at <a href="https://github.com/csalzano/recent-comments-widget-with-comment-excerpts" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/csalzano/recent-comments-widget-with-comment-excerpts</a>
Contact me by posting a message in the forums or <a href="https://twitter.com/breakfastcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">@breakfastcodes</a> on twitter.

Does exactly what it's supposed to do

Changes the behavior of the built-in Recent Comments widget to display comment excerpts instead of post titles

Dashboard: Recent Comments Extended vs Recent Comments Widget with Comment Excerpts