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Surbma

A simple shortcode to display recent comments. You can use it in text widgets or with every shortcode enabled page builder.
The shortcode: 
 [recent-comments] 
 [recent-comments number=”10″ author=”” title=””]
There are seven parameters for this shortcode:
<ol>
<li>author__not_in – Author ID to exclude from the list. Default: NULL to list all comments from all authors.</li>
<li>number – Number of comments to return. Leave blank to return all comments. Default: 5</li>
<li>order – How to sort comments: ‘ASC’ (Ascending – lowest to highest) or ‘DESC’ (Descending – highest to lowest). Default: DESC</li>
<li>author – Do you want to hide the author? Just give an empty parameter: author=””</li>
<li>title – Do you want to hide the title? Just give an empty parameter: title=””</li>
<li>excerpt – Do you want to hide the excerpt? Just give an empty parameter: excerpt=””</li>
<li>morelink – You can specify the text of the more link. Do you want to hide the more link? Just give an empty parameter: morelink=””</li>
</ol>
There is no mandatory parameter, you can use the shortcode as is.
IMPORTANT! This (or any other) shortcode is working only in a widget, if you or the theme has enabled the use of shortcodes in widgets. I’m not giving any description how you can do it, because there are a lot of posts out there. You can do a search for this: wordpress enable shortcodes in widgets

Surbma | Recent Comments Shortcode

A simple shortcode to display recent comments.

Khang Minh

This plugin displays recent comment lists at assigned locations. It does not add any significant load to your website. The comment list is updated on the fly when a visitor adds a comment or when you moderate one. No additional queries are needed for end-users.
A recent comment list, in my opinion, can help stimulate discussion and exploration of your blog tremendously. Now for the past few months I have been using a plugin called Get Recent Comments; though this plugin is configurable and indeed popular, the code is somehow messy and no support for custom post type is found. The worst thing is Get Recent Comment doesn’t seem to be updated anymore, so I decide to write another recent comment plugin which is more lightweight and makes use of some nice features provided by WordPress 3.0.
Powerup your recent comment list today!
<ul>
<li>Group comments by post (inspired by the classic Get Recent Comments plugin).</li>
<li>AJAX navigation for any recent comment list you want!</li>
<li>Has the options to show comment only, trackback only, or show both (separately or all together)</li>
<li>Get comments from a specific post, using either ID or post name (slug).</li>
<li>Possibility to add different comment lists with different settings on one page</li>
<li>You can show comments on a separate page, with pagination and custom template!</li>
<li>You can sort comment lists descendingly or ascendingly</li>
<li>Supports custom post type</li>
<li>Supports Gravatar</li>
<li>Supports smiley</li>
<li>Widget-ready</li>
<li>Template functions ready</li>
<li>Generate Zero SQL query for end-users</li>
<li>Possibility to trim post title to a certain number of words.</li>
<li>Possibility to trim comment to a specific number of words</li>
<li>Possibility to split long words into smaller chunks</li>
<li>WordPress Multi-site compatible (not tested with WPMU)</li>
<li>And more…</li>
</ul>
Get in touch
<ul>
<li>I’m available at <a href="http://betterwp.net" rel="nofollow ugc">BetterWP.net</a> and you can also follow me on <a href="http://twitter.com/0dd0ne0ut" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a>.</li>
<li>Check out <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/BetterWPnet" rel="nofollow ugc">latest WordPress Tips and Ideas</a> from BetterWP.net.</li>
</ul>
Languages
<ul>
<li>English (default)</li>
<li>French 1.1.0 (fr_FR) – Thanks to <a href="http://maitremo.fr" rel="nofollow ugc">Ma�tre M�</a>!</li>
<li>Russian 1.1.0 (ru_RU) – Thanks to Konstantin (kg69design)!</li>
<li>Ukrainian 1.1.0 (ua_UA) – Thanks to Konstantin (kg69design)!</li>
<li>Portuguese 1.2.1 (pt_PT) – Thanks to Marcus (http://www.maniadecelular.com.br)!</li>
<li>Spanish 1.2.1 (es_ES) – Thanks to Jordi!</li>
<li>Polish 1.2.1 (pl_PL) – Thanks to Jarek!</li>
</ul>
Please <a href="http://betterwp.net/wordpress-tips/create-pot-file-using-poedit/" rel="nofollow ugc">help translate</a> this plugin!
Visit <a href="http://betterwp.net/wordpress-plugins/bwp-recent-comments/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin’s Official Page</a> for more information!

Better WordPress Recent Comments

This plugin displays recent comment lists at assigned locations, with comprehensive support for widgets.

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