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AltePost

Posted: 20 June 2008 05:56 AM

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Joined 04-11-2008

Hi all!

I’m relatively new to EE (started in April) with currently two sites based on this CMS: http://www.zur-alten-post.info (commercial) and http://zickenterror.koberstein.org (personal)

As for the latter of these two, I have implemented the above-mentioned “Recent Comments” function which works fine, but I would like to tweak it a little. Namely so that it shows but one instance of each entry that contains a new comment. So far, the comment titles get repeated with each comment that is listed. That looks a bit silly, i.m.h.o. What I would actually like is a list of the entries that contain the X latest comments instead of a list of the 5 latest comments. (Alternatively, perhaps a list of those X entries that contain any new comments at all.)

Am I making any sense? Is there a way of doing that at all, or would the comments and the entries tags be getting into each other’s way?

Kind regards & thanks for this great CMS! Love it!

Ute

PS: On my personal site, I have also included the respective authors’ names in the recent comments function. It made more sense to me that way.

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toddlevy (formerly takashi37)

Posted: 04 July 2008 11:03 PM

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Just came across this thread while trying to do something similar…

What I would actually like is a list of the entries that contain the X latest comments

Below is a solution that shows a list of the X entries that were most recently commented on—which may be close enough to meet your needs.

Hope that helps,
TL

<ul>

{exp:weblog:entries 
   orderby="most_recent_comment" 
   sort="desc" 
   limit="5" 
   weblog="YOURWEBLOG" 
   dynamic="off" 
   disable="pagination|custom_fields|categories|member_data|trackbacks"}

   <li>
      <a href="{title_permalink=YOURTEMPLATEGROUP/YOURTEMPLATE}">{title}</a>
   </li>

{/exp:weblog:entries}

</ul> 

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AltePost

Posted: 05 July 2008 11:58 AM

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Thank you! I’ll try that one out a.s.a.p.

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