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', 'after_widget' => '
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', 'after_title' => '

', )); function recent_comments(){ global $wpdb; $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,1,80) 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 comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 3"; $comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql); $output = $pre_HTML; $output .= "\n"; $output .= $post_HTML; echo $output; } ?>