How to create a “New Comments” Page ??
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Our blog is already live, with a main page and a ‘recent posts’ page — is there a way to create a ‘recent comments’ page that lists the new comments chronologically (similar to the ‘recent posts’ page)? We have the recent post widget, but that only lists the most recent 2 comments. Thanks!
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You can create as many static Pages which are intended to be used for information that rarely, if ever, changes as you want but why bother? Why would you recreate the wheel by choosing to have Pages that you have to edit to manually update and that can’t have categories and tags assigned to them?
Why not use the automatically updating widgets for Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Categories, etc. ? The Recent Posts and Recent Comments widgets can be opened and set to display the most recent 15 entries/comments.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
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Thanks, we have the recent comments widget, but it had been set to the default 2, so I changed that. But we’d still be interested in having a page that basically is a “recent comments” page, that lists the comments chronologically, like the widget, and is automatically updated, like the “recent posts” / blog / forum page.
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@ timethief isn’t an index page a good idea as far as helping promote your blog through search engines. I figured they would rather crawl a page as I assumed they can’t crawl a widget.
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There is no such capacity for automatic posting to such a Recent Comments static Page. Static pages sit outside the blog structure and they have very little Google juice. The Google juice that flows to post on your front page is by far greater than the tiny bit that flows to and from static Pages. If you do care about PageRank and SERPs (positioning of your posts in search engine page results) then creating a blog based on static Pages is not the way to go. However, you can make that choice and if your do you will have to update your Recent Posts static page manually to include each and every new comment received.
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# timethief I was referring to an index based on categories. I have recent posts on my sidebar.
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@noreligionblog
No creating duplication of data already inherent to blog structure like Categories and Archives, etc. by placing the links on static Pages as well is not a good choice from an SEO perspective. Also some search engines stop crawling and indexing pages when they reach 100 links on any page. -
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@maeveccsa
You’re welcome. I wanted to be sure that you understood “the whole picture” before you made your choices. Best wishes for successful blogging. :)
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