Title: Make recent comments widget
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Make recent comments widget

 *  Resolved [bowoolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bowoolley/)
 * (@bowoolley)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-recent-comments-widget/)
 * Hi – I’m really having fun with this plugin. Currently I’m trying to make a “
   recent comments” widget, but I can’t seem to figure out which shortcodes to use
   to call the comments and the comment author, date, etc. I’m finding a lot of 
   great information reading other support threads, but haven’t been able to find
   this.
 * Thanks in advance for your help!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-content-shortcode/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
 * (@miyarakira)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-recent-comments-widget/#post-5159040)
 * Hello,
 * Currently, there’s not a way to loop through recent comments and display various
   fields as you described. There are a few shortcodes for comments: comment list/
   count for current post, and input form.
 * So, I’ll look into improving this part of the plugin. It sounds useful to be 
   able to pull X number of recent comments and its fields.
 * In the meantime, a possible solution could be to use the native widget for recent
   comments. Ah, that reminds me – I’ve written a `[widget]` shortcode for such 
   purpose, but I haven’t included it in the plugin yet.
 * OK – if you can give me a day or two, I’ll see what I can do for the next update.
 *  Thread Starter [bowoolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bowoolley/)
 * (@bowoolley)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-recent-comments-widget/#post-5159051)
 * Yay! I know there are plugins for “better recent comments and posts”, etc, but
   I love being able to style things myself using your shortcodes. You rock. 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Eliot Akira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miyarakira/)
 * (@miyarakira)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-recent-comments-widget/#post-5159122)
 * In the latest plugin update, I added a feature to loop through comments. Please
   see the documentation page, under the Comment tab.
 *  Thread Starter [bowoolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bowoolley/)
 * (@bowoolley)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/make-recent-comments-widget/#post-5159127)
 * It works!! I don’t have time this morning to try out all of the parameters, but
   in three minutes I got something going in a widget. Next: to see if I can include
   post thumbnail… I’ll try that this evening! Thanks for being so willing to make
   this plugin do what we need!!

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