Comments Plugin

Assuming you are looking to do a listing of recent comments, you could use the Customizable Comment Listings plugin, as mentioned here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=29195

With it you can choose what to show and how to show it.

Thanks but that seems a bit tough. I am looking for something more similiar. (You’re talking to a newb here)

<PostName> by <PostAuthor>
or
How to Blog by Ian

Is the PostName and PostAuthor above to be used when listing recent comments? Or were you interested in post listings all along and not anything related to comments? Your description so far is too vague to know how you want PostName and PostAuthor used.

Sorry – yes it is for comments.

Right now my sidebar is like:

Recent Comments

mystikwarrior: That’s just it. There’s no proof a sex offender IS…

victoria: here’s the breakup, according to the DoJ* 162 murder suspects …

LL: Operation FALCON, Click Here, a total of 10,000 fugitives were…

Blogs for Bush: The Pitch President Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch at…

Which is: <PostAuthor> : <Comment>
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I want it to be <PostName> by: <Post Author>

Did you want it by recently commented posts or by recent comments? (The former means that each post will only be listed once with the most recent commenter next to it.) The two versions would look like this:

Recently Commented
Sample Post Title by: Commenter4
Another Post by: Commenter2
Yet Another by: Commenter1

Recent Comments
Sample Post Title by: Commenter4
Sample Post Title by: Commenter3
Another Post by: Commenter2

(In both examples, Commenter4 made the most recent comment and Commenter3 the next most recent comment. Notice how recently commented doesn’t list Sample Post Title twice.)

Ohh I gotcha … I want it like movable type. where if there is several new posts for one entry, for example, if John, Joe, and Jim (being the most recent) commented on the entry “How to make a Blog”. It will only say

How to make a blog by Jim