Changelog

Version Date Changes
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.