Code to Display the Most Recent Comments

There are a few plugins that will retrieve the most comments. But if you want a little more control or like to get your hands dirty in a little PHP code, there is a code snippet that will do the trick:

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<?php
 
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,1,30) 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 10";
 
$comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql);
$output = $pre_HTML;
$output .= "\n<ul>";
foreach ($comments as $comment) {
   $output .= "\n<li>".strip_tags($comment->comment_author) .":" . "<a href=\"" . get_permalink($comment->ID) .
   "#comment-" . $comment->comment_ID . "\" title=\"on " . $comment->post_title . "\">" 
   . strip_tags($comment->com_excerpt) ."</a></li>";
}
$output .= "\n</ul>";
$output .= $post_HTML;
echo $output;
?>
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