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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.

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

Surbma | Recent Comments Shortcode vs Recent Comments Widget with Comment Excerpts