This is something I am trying to do on my site. I have the same recent comments code on my individual archive page as I do my main index. In the archive it works exactly as I want – showing recent comments (both comments and trackbacks) for that entry. But on the main index I get an error saying MTSimpleComments needs to be run in an entry context.

So I thought the answer was going to be this patch you refer to here, but while that doesn’t give me an error on rebuilds now it also doesn’t fix the problem – I only see recent comments on the main archive.

Do you have it working?

I use PHP/MySql primarily because I have several ‘weblogs’ (converting all my sites over to MT management) and want posts, trackbacks, and comments from all of them to show on each page.

And, I do love playing with MySql….

I’m not sure which patch you are referring to; Mark Paschel’s patch helped enable recent comments/trackbacks on the index page, whilst Dave Raynes MTPingedURLs still only works on the individual entries, not the index page. Is this why you are not seeing anything?

I’ve noticed that MTSimpleComments doesn’t give a build error if you use an invalid tag, it just doesn’t display anything.

Excellent, knowing it is working for you means I’ll spend some time to figure out just why it isn’t for me. Don’t think it is an invalid code since the exact same code works in the individual archive, but certainly gives me the energy I need knowing that I should be able to get it to work.

Thanks