<h2>Recent Comments</h2> <?php global $wpdb; $sql = "SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title, post_password, comment_ID, comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_date_gmt, comment_approved, comment_type,comment_author_url, SUBSTRING(comment_content,1,30) AS com_excerpt FROM $wpdb->comments LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID = $wpdb->posts.ID) WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type = '' AND post_password = '' ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 10"; $comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql); $output = $pre_HTML; $output .= "\n<ul>"; foreach ($comments as $comment) { $output .= "\n<li>".strip_tags($comment->comment_author) .":" . "<a href=&quot;" . get_permalink($comment->ID) . "#comment-" . $comment->comment_ID . "&quot; title=&quot;on " . $comment->post_title . "&quot;>" . strip_tags($comment->com_excerpt) ."</a></li>"; } $output .= "\n</ul>"; $output .= $post_HTML; echo $output;?>