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I have been unable to show all comments by an author using the comments tag. I have been using EE for years and I was surprised I have never had this need.  I am trying to use the comments:entries tag:

{exp:comment:entries limit="2" author_id="1" dynamic="off" sort="desc" weblog="articles" orderby="date"}

I am aware that the documentation does say it requires having an entry_id value, but also aware that it works to show all entries by everyone historically. 

I would like to show comments by an individual user is this possible in 1.6.x?

What is the preferred method of achieving this?

eyevariety,

Parameter author_id doesn’t exist so I would probably go with a conditional.

{exp:comment:entries sort="asc" limit="2" dynamic="off" entries sort="desc" weblog="articles" orderby="date"}  

{if author_id == '1'}
{comment}
{/if}

{/exp:comment:entries}

Does that help?

In that case it would only show the comment content if one of the last two was by that author- right?

I want to list off all of a member’s comments. The site has thousands of entries and tens of thousands of comments.  How would I do that? 

Something like this seems like a crazy pipe dream:

{exp:comment:entries limit="30000" dynamic="off" sort="desc" weblog="articles" orderby="date"}  

{if author_id == '1'}
{comment}
{/if}

{/exp:comment:entries}

While EE2 supports an author_id parameter EE1 does not, unfortunately. In this case a custom SQL query might be the best option, actually.

Ok Gotcha.  Thanks Ingmar

If you need help with that, let us know and I can move the thread to the CodeShare Corner. Thanks.

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