How to get the 5 most recent comments and each comment 5 most recent replies (children)
To list the most recent (5) comments you can use this code : $sql = “SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title, post_password, comment_ID, comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_date_gmt, comment_approved, comment_type,comment_author_url, SUBSTRING(comment_content,1,50) // NUMBER OF CHARACTERS AS com_excerpt FROM $wpdb->comments LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID = $wpdb->posts.ID) WHERE comment_approved = ‘1’ AND comment_type=”” AND post_password = ” ORDER BY … Read more