Title: recent comments widget  summary
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# recent comments widget summary

 *  [anurspas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anurspas/)
 * (@anurspas)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-widget-summary/)
 * Hi, we are using the recent comments widget in a sidebar on our bog. I’ve been
   requested to show a ‘teaser’ of the comment as well, can this be done? If so,
   how?
    We are using a child of Arras them.

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-widget-summary/#post-2722772)
 * try this (not tested):
 *     ```
       $comments = get_comments('status=approve&number=5'); ?>
       <ul>
       <?php foreach ($comments as $comment) { ?>
           <li><?php
               $title = get_the_title($comment->comment_post_ID);        echo strip_tags($comment->comment_author);
               ?>&nbsp;<?php
               echo wp_html_excerpt( $comment->comment_content, 35 ); ?>
               <br /><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($comment->post_ID); ?>" rel="external nofollow" title="<?php echo $title; ?>"> <?php echo $title; ?> </a>
           </li>
       <?php }  ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [anurspas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anurspas/)
 * (@anurspas)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-widget-summary/#post-2722811)
 * Thank you for your quick response.
 * However, I discovered that the Recent Comments widget was being used and not 
   the Get Recent Comments widget. The Get Recent Comments widget allows for the
   teaser.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [anurspas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anurspas/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-comments-widget-summary/#post-2722811)
 * Status: not resolved

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