Title: Recent Comments Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Recent Comments Problem

 *  [jafer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jafer/)
 * (@jafer)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-problem/)
 * Now that I’m using 1.2, the recent comments plugin is not working properly. It
   shows the most recent comments alright, but if you click on the comment, it will
   just take you to the trackback page, but not show the comment.
 * The only way to see the comments are to click on the popup comment link and then
   you can see everyone’s comment.
 * Is there a way for me to fix this? I’m also using the plugger plugin with it.
   Is that the problem (although they both worked fine together before).
 * Thanks very much.

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 *  Thread Starter [jafer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jafer/)
 * (@jafer)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-problem/#post-122920)
 * Anyone?
 *  Thread Starter [jafer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jafer/)
 * (@jafer)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-problem/#post-122949)
 * Maybe I haven’t been clear with this, since no one’s offered any solutions.
 * My comments will show if you click on the popup comments (as if you were going
   to post).
 * However, in the “recent comments” (my-hack.php), where it shows the most recent
   5 comments text, if you click on the actual text of the comments, it takes you
   to the trackback page, e.g., [http://www.idiotonastick.com/wp/index.php?p=18#comment-40](http://www.idiotonastick.com/wp/index.php?p=18#comment-40)
 * But on that page, you don’t see any comments at all… just that post. And where
   you should see their comments, it just has the links to the sites of those who
   commented.
 * Is that more understandable? I know that there was a problem before with comments,
   where someone gave me the tracking to posts here, but I haven’t seen anything
   addressing this.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-problem/#post-122952)
 * That’s because you’re using popup comments. You hack is set to link show the 
   recent comments, then link to each post. You, however, are not using in-post 
   comments. You are using popup comments. Alter your hack so that it links to the
   popup comments page for each post, or turn off popup comments.
 *  Thread Starter [jafer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jafer/)
 * (@jafer)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-problem/#post-122970)
 * Thanks macmanx, but I don’t know how to do that. Do I alter the my-hacks file?
   And, if so, what do I change it to?
 * When I used this plugin in the older version, it would pull up the regular comment
   page when you clicked on their comments, but you could also see it in the popup
   comments.
 * What should I change? I’m all ears (with no php knowledge between them).
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-problem/#post-122972)
 * I don’t know how to did your hack. But, you want to change the links from going
   to the index.php version of the comments to the wp-comments-popup.php version.
 *  Thread Starter [jafer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jafer/)
 * (@jafer)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-problem/#post-122976)
 * This is what’s in my-hacks (as found in the wiki). And then on my page I just
   add the get_recent_comments code as per MtDewVirus page.
 * Is there something within this that I should change?
 * `code'<?php
    function get_recent_comments($no_comments = 5, $comment_lenth = 
   5, $before = '
 * <li>', $after = '</li>
    ', $show_pass_post = false) { global $wpdb, $tablecomments,
   $tableposts; $request = "SELECT ID, comment_ID, comment_content, comment_author
   FROM $tableposts, $tablecomments WHERE $tableposts.ID=$tablecomments.comment_post_ID
   AND post_status = 'publish' "; if(!$show_pass_post) { $request .= "AND post_password
   ='' "; } $request .= "AND comment_approved = '1' ORDER BY $tablecomments.comment_date
   DESC LIMIT $no_comments"; $comments = $wpdb->get_results($request); $output ='';
   foreach ($comments as $comment) { $comment_author = stripslashes($comment->comment_author);
   $comment_content = strip_tags($comment->comment_content); $comment_content = 
   stripslashes($comment_content); $words=split(" ",$comment_content); $comment_excerpt
   = join(" ",array_slice($words,0,$comment_lenth)); $permalink = get_permalink(
   $comment->ID)."#comment-".$comment->comment_ID; $output .= $before . '<strong
   >' . $comment_author . ':</strong> <a href="' . $permalink; $output .= '" title
   ="View the entire comment by ' . $comment_author.'">' . $comment_excerpt . '...
   </a>' . $after; } echo $output; } 'code Thanks for your input.
 *  Thread Starter [jafer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jafer/)
 * (@jafer)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-problem/#post-122997)
 * Ok, now that I have a partial answer, does anyone know the rest of it?

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-problem/#post-122997)
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