In responding to a recent question posted to my review of Blogsome, the excellent free WordPress hosting service, I discovered that Blogsome offers my Recent Comments plugin as part of its “out of the box” package. Pretty cool!
The only drawback is it’s a very old version (1.7 – it’s currently at 2.3), but oh well.
is it possible to set quantity parameter in blogsome, still offering version 1.7? It always shows the last 5 ones with length 5.
Thank you!
As far as I know, you can’t upload arbitrary plugins to Blogsome hosted sites, so they will have to update to the latest version on their servers for that to happen. Unfortunately I’m not related to them in any way, they are just using my plugin, so someone over there will have to do it. It should be a pretty easy switch though. I would suggest e-mailing someone at blogsome.
Thank you for your interest.
I think this is not related to blogsome.
My question is “can we change default params in version 1.7?”
The point is eventhough I wrote the code like this
{get_recent_comments quantity=’10′}
it shows the last 5 comments.
get_recent_comments(10, 5);Should return a list of the ten most recent comments (with the first five words from each) in version 1.7, although I don’t know if I still have that version around somewhere to test with.
It’s always possible that Blogsome altered the code as well to use hard coded parameters inside the plugin, but I’m not sure on that.
I will try to check into it further, and maybe I’ll submit a request to them that they upgrade.
OK. At last it’s ok!
your recent comments plugin 1.7 have parameter names, “no_comments”(now quantity) and “comment_lenth”(now length).
Since blogsome uses smart tags the code we should write is:
{get_recent_comments no_comments=”10″ comment_lenth=’7′}
Thank you again for your interest. If blogsome upgrades the plugin, we’ll be able to use MaxCommentsPerPost as well.
One question… The CSS names to customize the plugin in the version 1.7 are the same that in the 3.0 version??
Thank you.
Yes, if I remember correctly. The best bet would probably be just to look at the source of the generate page for the names, in case they are different.