You’re right about the recent posts– silly me, I keep getting posts mixed up with comments.
Thanks for the code snippet for the recent comments. It’s what I’m doing now, but I was hoping that instead of “recent comments”, it was instead a list of unread comments. Basically, when your plugin shows “2 new comments”, I was hoping to use the same query you use to figure out that number, and then show those 2 comments only. But I think your plugin just counts the number of comments since a certain date– except for posts the user has already read this session– something like that.