Comments on: WordPress Plugins Updated: Similar Posts, Recent Posts, Random Posts, and Recent Comments

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:42:02 +0000

Dan: Can you try re-indexing the posts via the Manage|Similar Posts screen? There seems to be a serious issue here that I’d like to solve.

By: Dan at Necessary Roughness

Dan at Necessary Roughness — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:30:08 +0000

btw…I did deactivate and delete the old plugin first. Thanks :)

By: Dan at Necessary Roughness

Dan at Necessary Roughness — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:29:20 +0000

Tested Similar Posts 2.5beta9 on my WP 2.3.3, upgrading from previous Similar Posts, and I’m getting nothing but “None Found” for similar posts. Does the similar posts table need some sort of update?

By: Barend

Barend — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:44:58 +0000

Rob: thank you so much for thinking along. I’m in slightly over my head I’m afraid. I’m guessing i need to place that code into functions.php, and then how exactly do I call that function in the “loop”? If you want to take this off this list you’ve got my email address I’m sure.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:38:31 +0000

Barend: It rather depends on how you are generating the post listing but the following code will get the last comment from a post ID:


function get_latest_comment($post_id) {
	global $wpdb;
	return $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare("SELECT comment_content FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_post_ID = %d AND comment_approved = '1' ORDER BY comment_date LIMIT 1", $post_id));
}

Let me know if this helps.

By: Barend

Barend — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:38:34 +0000

Hi Rob, thanks for your reply. Yes it seems like overkill. I thought it would be very straightforward to include the last comment with each post. Your suggestion only puts a link to the comments below the post. What I’d like to achieve is the following:

” Post A”
latest comment on Post A

“Post B”
latest comment on Post B

etc.

I hope I’m missing something really obvious here, so any help is appreciated.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:40:27 +0000

Barend: Recent Comments would be overkill for what (I think) you are trying to do. Its intention is do a global listing of comments rather than the comments per post. Maybe the WordPress tag comments_link() would do the job for you?

By: Barend

Barend — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:00:50 +0000

Hi. I’m trying to get the most recent comment for each individual posting, displayed under the corresponding posting in archive view.

But what I’m getting is the same most recent comment displayed with each posting.

Is it possible to do what I need with this plugin? It seems so close… Thanks in advance.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:47:24 +0000

Nick: (sigh of relief!!!)

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:40:34 +0000

Thanks, Rob - Random Posts is now working on both servers, and in WordPress 2.3.3 and 2.5 RC1.