Title: Recent comments widget
Last modified: August 9, 2021

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# Recent comments widget

 *  [stas0238](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stas0238/)
 * (@stas0238)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-widget-8/)
 * Hello dear WP developers !
 * I am one of depelopers of premium themes and now I am working on compatibility
   with your latest update.
 * I found an issue for me but it more looks like it could be fixed for both sides
   by your one.
 * Could you tell me the reason why you use here -> [http://prntscr.com/1ljoukk](http://prntscr.com/1ljoukk)“
   ol” tag while you are making it list-style: none anyway ? It is ok to use here“
   ul” and have the exactly same result. I asked you about this because I have many
   styles in theme that are working with “.sidebar ul” and not for “.sidebar ol”.
   If you change it to ul then it will be ok for me and for you too. But if not 
   then I should add a package of styles to make it styled much better than now.
 * Waiting for your reply guys !
 * Regards, stas0238
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Developing with WordPress
      topic
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Frecent-comments-widget-8%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-widget-8/#post-14753973)
 * Some themes might really want their comments in a numbered list. Regardless of
   the list type here, your theme should be styling both ordered and unordered lists
   as you see fit, even if they are both no style..
 *  Thread Starter [stas0238](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stas0238/)
 * (@stas0238)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-widget-8/#post-14754004)
 * [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
    Good answer but I have
   some doubts about this widget. When user used old version of widget then it was
   ul but when it is in gutenberg then it is ol. Maybe it would better to have an
   option for that or make like it was on old version ? I meant that no one theme
   wanted to have ordered list before the update of widgets panel. So I don’t think
   that once you had that update all theme will think about ‘Ohh finally let’s show
   this ordered list there :)’. Regards, [@stas0238](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stas0238/)
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-widget-8/#post-14758917)
 * TBH, it’s hard for me to imagine a theme that would want to number the comments.
   I don’t know why they switched to an ordered list when they switched to block
   based widgets. The difference is only semantic anyway. We could number an unordered
   list or bullet point an ordered list if we were so inclined.
 * There doesn’t appear to be any filter we could use to alter the HTML list type,
   so altering it would involve developing an alternative custom block. A lot of
   fuss just to change an “o” to an “u”.
 * I still think the best solution is for your theme to style the ordered comment
   list just as you would style an unordered list. It’d probably mainly be a matter
   of adding `ol` selectors to the `ul` ones you already have, if your CSS is not
   based solely on class selectors to start with.

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 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-widget-8/#post-14758917)
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