I just ported the Binary Blue specific Sidebar Widget, which adds full support for Brian’s Latest Comments, into a general purpose Sidebar Widget.
Remember that the use of this Widget still requires the installed and activated Brian’s Latest Comments Plugin!
Installation Instructions
- Make sure that you have installed and activated Brian’s Latest Comments Plugin (it’s a mandatory requirement for this widget to work!)
- Download and expand this zipfile to an empty directory of your liking
- Copy the file called “widget_blc_latestcomments.php” from the directory where you’ve expanded the zip file to your wp-content/plugins/widgets directory on your webserver of your WordPress installation
- Activate the Widget in your admin panel on the Plugins submenu
- Switch to your Presentation/Sidebar Widgets submenu, drag-n-drop the “BLC Latest Comments” Widget to your sidebar and open the Widget’s options panel, where you can tweak the different settings
- Save your Sidebar Widgets configuration
- Have Fun!
Demo Screenshots
Update:
I’ve published a patched version of the plugin that is neccessary to make use of the widget, to add full AJAX Paged Comments support for it. The Paged Comments support integrates seemlessly with the widget, so I’d strongly advise to use the patched version as long as you’re using Binary Blue at the same time 
Frank Michlick meint
Same problem here, the options only allow me to change the title. Using Wordpress 2.1.3 with the Widgets plugin.
CountZero meint
hm, if you can’t see the same options like in the screenshot above, there’s apparently something wrong with your Widgets installation. But I have no idea where to look for the cause of this misbehaviour.
John Baker meint
I’ve got this working, but “open the Widget’s options panel, where you can tweak the different settings” doesn’t seem to work for me. When I click on the widget it only offers me a space for a title, and nothing else, no way to configure colours, etc.
Have I missed out a step?
Any help would be appreciated.
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