Changelog

Version Date       Changes
2.0.2   2007/09/25 Fix: Plugin was not compatible to WordPress
                   2.0.11 any more. Thank you to Stephan for
                   reporting the bug.
2.0.1   2007/09/24 Added switch on the categories page, which
                   reverses the selection. It is now possible to
                   include or exclude categories.
2.0     2007/09/24 New code for fetching the data: 1. Instead of
                   one expensive database query we now use two
                   or more cheap queries. Thanks to mirra, who
                   reported the problem. And again thank you to
                   the people mentioned in changlog 1.4, where
                   the cache was introduced for the same
                   (performance-) problems on big blogs. 2. This
                   also fixed a bug, which lead to too less than
                   requested comments in lists, ordered by post.
                   Thanks to Johanna and Frédéric for reporting
                   and documenting this. Changed the css in the
                   admin gui, to work around a display issue
                   with Tiger Admin. Thank you, Andi, for
                   finding this. Added %time_since macro, which
                   displays the time since the comment was
                   posted. Thanks to Imran and Keith for
                   sugesting (something like) this (very long
                   ago). Admin interface: Added switch fpr
                   turning on and off smileys. Thank you, panos,
                   for requesting this feature. Support for
                   Custom Smileys Plugin. Thanks to Henry for
                   suggesting this. Fix: Username was not
                   displayed as "Anonymous", if commentor left
                   no name. Thanks to Pixelation for reporting
                   this. Added support for WordPress 2.3. It
                   will drop the post2cat table. Changed plugin
                   to new taxonomy scheme. A *great* thank you
                   goes to Lakatos Zsolt, who provided a
                   complete patch for get-recent-comments-1.5.6,
                   which made it very easy for me to understand
                   how 2.0-beta10 had to be changed. Thank you
                   also to xelios, Ville and Kretzschmar who
                   warned me, that WordPress 2.3 will break the
                   old plugin code.
1.5.5   2007/03/26 Added support for malyfred's Polyglot Plugin.
                   Requested by Torben.
1.5.4   2007/02/01 Use full pingback_author as %comment_author
                   (instead of 'Unknown', if the pingback parser
                   fails to recognize the pingback_author.
                   Thanks again to Gant who found this in his
                   blog. Added %author_url_href macros, which
                   allows to generate inactive links, if the
                   commentator did not leave an url. This was
                   wished (in part long ago) by beej, carl,
                   FilSchiesty and SwB.
                   Added %profile_picture macro, which supports
                   Hannah Gray's Profile Pics Plugin. Thank you
                   for the idea and your help, Markus
1.5.3   2007/01/15 Refresh cache, when a comment is approved by
                   moderator. Problem found by Gant. Thank you!
1.5.2   2007/01/05 Added option for excluding comments from blog
                   authors. Suggested by This is Zimbabwe, Slim,
                   marilyn's shampoo and Igor M.
1.5.1   2006/12/29 Store the cache base64 encoded. There seems
                   to be a problem with the unserialization of
                   multibyte characters. Thanks to priv, who
                   reported the problem and suggested the
                   encoding.
                   After upgrading to this version you should
                   trigger a regeneration of the cache by adding
                   a comment somewhere.
1.5     2006/12/27 New pingback parser
                   Stop losing html entities and tags in the
                   post titles and comments by using
                   wptexturize. Thanks to ejm (again!) and
                   mobius for reporting the problem and making
                   suggestions.
                   Bugfix in widget code: Error, when trackbacks
                   came before comments
1.4     2006/12/24 The plugin is a widget now. Thanks to
                   herrmueller and Thomas de Klein for
                   suggesting this feature.
                   Cache the output in order to reduce the
                   database impact of the plugin. Thanks to the
                   following people for reporting the poor
                   performance and making suggestions to solve
                   the problem: Brandon Stone, King of Fools,
                   Robert Basic and especially CountZero.
                   Option to combine comments and trackbacks in
                   one list (requested by Maniac and die
                   produzentin)
                   Allow to Group comments by their posting
                   (requested by eyolf)
                   Allow limit of comments per post (suggested
                   by Thomas)
                   Use Wordpress 2.1 compatible database
                   variables. Thanks to spencerp, for reporting
                   and fixing.
                   Bugfix: Wrong key used in gravatar hash
                   (Thank you, Hamzeh N., for finding and fixing
                   this).
                   Updated the stylesheets to the look of
                   wordpress 2.x.
                   Added two macros: %comment_type and
                   %post_counter.
                   Use less option variables in db.
                   Updated instructions page.
                   Dropped support for Wordpress 1.2
1.3.1   2006/12/11 Fixes for problems with wordpress running
                   under windows.
1.3     2006/11/26 Fixes for problems with php5.
1.2     2005/09/15 Prevent pingbacks from own blog. Thanks to
                   Matt for the idea and support!
                   To use the feature, go to the trackbacks
                   configuration and enter the address of your
                   webserver.
1.0     2005/03/21 Also show comments to static pages. (They are
                   new in WP 1.5). Thanks to maza for the hint.
0.9     2005/03/20 Introduced admin gui. Handle trackbacks
                   different than comments. Replaced most
                   regular expressions with basic string
                   operations. Dedicated macro for posting time.
                   Requested by Zonekiller
0.8     2005/02/04 Readjusted sequence of arguments to the one
                   described in the documentation. Thanks to
                   Thomas
0.7     2005/02/03 Renamed plugin to get-recent-comments, to
                   make it possible to use the subversion system
                   at www.wp-plugins.org
                   Allow to specify your own formatting in the
                   function call
0.5     2005/01/02 Removed superfluous </p>
0.4     2004/12/19 Use function arguments for displaying HTML
                   before and after the comment
                   Make number of comments and number of
                   characters also function arguments
0.3     2004/12/08 Link to permalink of comment
                   Wrap very long strings
0.2                Don’t show comments that are not approved
0.1     2004/11/03 Initial release

Thanks to all who sent bug reports and ideas for improvements.
Please send me a mail if I forgot you to mention here.

