Get WordPress comments outside of WordPress

Tagged WordPress

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:
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