Get WordPress comments outside of WordPress

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Sometimes you want to access WordPress content outside of WordPress. There are various pages that explain how to this and it’s really easy to do as well. What I tried to do was a little different though, I wanted to print comments outside of WordPress.

To my surprise wp_list_comments() didn’t output anything inside my custom loop. It turned out that $wp_query->comments was NULL, which I think is rather odd. I would have expected it to be defined like in a normal loop inside WordPress. However, the fix is trivial:

 $post->ID,
        'status' => 'approve',
        'order' => 'ASC'
    );
    $wp_query->comments = get_comments( $args );
    wp_list_comments( );
    comment_form();
}

comment_form() is a WordPress 3.0 feature by the way, so you may not want to use it yet.

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Nicolas KuttlerThis entry was written by nicolas, posted on 14. April 2010, filed under Content Management and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
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