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That worked perfectly. Thanks so much.

Yeah, I had already done a similar mod about a week back. Except I added a ‘postbycat’ search type for a bit more flexibility in my case handling. If you go to https://www.chait.net, and choose one of the category tabs along the top, the Last 5 Posts block on the right changes to Last 5 in [cat] instead. I like it — makes the site more ‘context sensitive’. ??
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huh?
Changing your call from:
<?php get_archives('postbypost', '5', 'html', '

• ', '

', false, '7'); ?>
To:
<?php get_archives('postbypost', '5', 'html', '

• ', '

', false, $cat); ?>
Would result in calling whatever the active ‘cat’egory is…. You could even specify a default, although I haven’t tested the WAY that I wrote it here (I probably have typos galore):
<?php get_archives('postbypost', '5', 'html', '

• ', '

', false, ($cat=='')?'7':$cat); ?>

Yeah, something like that would work. Though you need to watch for $cat==’all’ as a case too. There’s not a huge difference between approaches here… they’re pretty darn close.
I guess the other reason to not have a new archive retrieval ‘type’ like I did it is that you could use the category filter for things other than postbypost… Hmmm… now that I think of it, that could be useful for some people. That is, rather than necessarily the last 5 posts in a category, a given month’s postings in that category.. Hey, that’s kinda cool. Off to code! ??
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btw, that was REALLY easy… I just set up a new variable $post_cat_select_rule at the top of the fn based on if(empty($cat)), and added it in place of the post_category check in each of the SQL queries. if people are interested, I can post the useful snippets here. should have it up on chait.net later tonight (though you won’t really see a change in functionality at the moment!).
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How do we do the same for the most recent comments? That’s what I am really looking for…