{"id":429,"date":"2005-12-31T11:08:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T19:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/31\/installed-brians-latest-comments\/"},"modified":"2005-12-31T20:18:57","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T04:18:57","slug":"installed-brians-latest-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/31\/installed-brians-latest-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Installed Brian’s Latest Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aren’t they<\/a> pretty.<\/p>\n

Instructions:
\n<\/p>\n

\n

How to use<\/h2>\n

The plugin gives you a function called blc_latest_comment<\/strong>.
\nThe simplest way of using it is to add this to your blog:
\n
\n<ul class=\"latestactivity\">
\n<?php blc_latest_comments(); ?>
\n<\/ul><\/p>\n

<\/code>
\nHowever, it does offer a bit of customizability.
\nThe arguments the function accepts are these:
\n
\nblc_latest_comments(number of posts, number of commenters per post, hide track\/pingbacks, prefix, postfix, fade_old, range_in_days, newest_color, oldest_color)
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

\n
Number of posts<\/dt>\n
The number of posts you want in the list. Default is 5.<\/dd>\n
Number of commenters per post<\/dt>\n
How many names you want to show under each post. Default is 6.<\/dd>\n
Hide track\/pingbacks<\/dt>\n
Whether or not to hide pingbacks and trackbacks. Default is false.<\/dd>\n
Prefix and postfix<\/dt>\n
These are wrapped around each post and list of commenters. Default is <li> and <\/li>.<\/dd>\n
Fade old<\/dt>\n
Whether to use comment temperatures. Default is true.<\/dd>\n
Range in days<\/dt>\n
The number of days it takes for a comment to fade from the newest color to the oldest color. Default is 10 days.<\/dd>\n
New color<\/dt>\n
The color of a completely new post. The default is a dark gray.<\/dd>\n
Old color<\/dt>\n
The color of a post that is as old or older than the number of days given by the “range in days” argument. Default is light gray. <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

If you have Dunstan’s Time Since<\/a> installed, the links will have the title=”” attribute set to a time since message.<\/p>\n

If not, there is no title.<\/p>\n

How to change the look<\/h2>\n

The way I achieve the look I have on my Activity on the right hand side, is by adding this CSS to wp-layout.css:
\n
\n.latestactivity small
\n{
\n\tdisplay: block;
\n\tmargin: 0px;<\/p>\n

\tmargin-left: 10px;
\n\tfont-size: 94%;
\n}
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Bugs and limitations<\/h2>\n
    \n
  • It seems that it only works with MySQL 3.x, not MySQL 4.x. This will be mended soon.<\/strike><\/li>\n
  • Has been tested successfully with MySQL 3.23 and MySQL 4.0.21<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    I think that’s about it. Happy latest commenting.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Aren’t they pretty. Instructions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}