Hi,
When a comment is submitted, it does not update the default Comment section of WP, and thus will not show in the "Recent Comment" widget.
How do I enlist the recent comments submitted by Gravity in the "Recent Comments" Widget, or similar widget?
I use the Executable PHP widget, so I can use any php code (I use php code widget to display the contact form in the sidebar), but what to use to display the top 5 recent comments, for instance...?
Regards
Morten Ross
I'm a little confused Morten, Gravity Forms doesn't have anything to do with the WordPress Comments functionality so i'm unsure how you are using it and how that relates to your question. Can you clarify on what exactly you are doing?
It seems there is some confusion. As Carl mentioned, Gravity Forms has nothing to do with WordPress comment functionality. If you simply want to show the comments in the sidebar, there are a bevy of plugins and widgets available to do that for you as well as many tutorials on doing it manually.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=recent+comments&sort=
By comments do you mean form submissions (Gravity Forms calls them entries)?
If you are referring to WordPress Comments for posts, Gravity Forms has nothing to do with the WordPress Comment system.
I think the terminology is what is confusing us. Gravity Forms create form entries, not WordPress comments.
Gravity Forms doesn't have anything to do with WordPress Comments and therefore wouldn't update the Comments section.
Let's say I have a Gravity Form named form1. How to I put the latest 5 submissions from form1 to the sidebar?
As it is now, there is no means to communicate to the outside what people have submitted via form1 - I can only see this as an admin in the dashboard.
In order to display entries on the front end you would have to write your own PHP to query the Gravity Forms entry tables and display the data. You would have to have a knowledge of PHP and MySQL in order to do so. There isn't currently a built in Gravity Forms function call to display data on the front end.
We do plan on adding this functionality in the future, however it isn't in the current version of the plugin.
