Wednesday 24 December 2008

My "Recent comments" widget is b*ggered

NB - this is not my most recent post. I set the date so that it stays on top for the time being

I have been using the one from Tips For New Bloggers for ages, but it stopped working a couple of days ago. I have spent a couple of hours trying to replacing it with the Haloscan one (like Snafu and Pommygranate), but I can't get that to work either.

UPDATE: thanks for the suggestions, I have tried them all and I think it is the comment feed itself that is broken, not the widget - i.e. this:

feed://markwadsworth.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default

only shows comments up to 3rd December.

http://markwadsworth.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

The widget bubble bursts.

Anonymous said...

It might be a step to far, but you could try Disqus which replaces the entire comments engine.

James Higham said...

Unfortunately, I'm on the old blogger.

Mark Wadsworth said...

JB, that sounds a bit va banque and might go horribly wrong.

JH, it's stopped working because the comment feed RSS thingy has stopped working. I can't see a Recent Comments widget on your 'blog.

Snafu said...

Mark, apologies but I can't remember how I sorted the recent comments thing out! I vaguely recall following a link Neil Harding had in his comments once.

Henry North London 2.0 said...

Thank you Mark Its nice to be back

You can blame the GMC for it

James Higham said...

Tell me - is it mended by now?

Anyway, Merry Christmas, old son.

Mark Wadsworth said...

JH, I'm afraid not, thanks anyway.

Sue said...

http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/2007/03/recent-comments.html

Try this one, it may work

Henry North London 2.0 said...

Its working now

I redid from the |Tips from new bloggers page just now

Mark Wadsworth said...

test

Henry North London 2.0 said...

It works for me

Go back to basics and follow the steps as he suggests

and run with it

I initially just copy pasted his
and got his last five comments and then realised I had to put my web address in

You're not putting in the feed address by mistake are you?

Anonymous said...

Your rss feed might be buggered too. According to my blogger links list, which basically receives a feed from the blogs I follow, your site hasn't been updated for three weeks.

My blog is also undergoing problems so it might be my problem though.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Oh G*d, it just gets worse. A bit of tinkering later, and now the link to my comments feed is defunct as well.

Henry North London 2.0 said...

Crikey thank the lord my feed isnt buggered

Did you change the template by any chance 3 weeks ago?

Chances are that you may have disturbed something

Re boot up your old template which I assume you saved first before tinkering with it

Mark Wadsworth said...

HNL, er, that whole 'saving before you tinker concept' ...

Henry North London 2.0 said...

So you are the architect of your own doom?

Mark Wadsworth said...

yup

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