Comments for recently_commented_on no longer working?

recently_commented_on no longer working?

2008-08-13T22:13:51Z

I've just upgraded to 4.2 and the mt:Entries attribute recentlycommentedon doesn't seem to be working for me any more.

I have a test template like this:

But it outputs nothing, despite there being comments on the site recently (eg here http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1665/08/12/ )

Have I made some stupid mistake or can anyone else replicate this?

Also, am I imagining things, or did the value for recentlycommentedon used to be the number of entries to display, rather than "the number of days to use to limit the selection"? http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/tags/entries.html

Thanks.

Comment from Phil Gyford on 2008-08-13

2008-08-13T22:15:52Z

My test template didn't show up (and I couldn't see an option to Preview my post). Here it is:

Strange, works fine in a reply...

Comment from Su on 2008-08-14

2008-08-14T11:26:04Z

Pasted your snippet in exactly, and it works fine. Have you tried isolating it in its own index template and manually rebuilding it, just to see if something else might be interfering?

The docs are wrong. Bug filed; I'll submit a patch this weekend if someone doesn't get to it first.

Comment from Phil Gyford on 2008-08-14

2008-08-14T14:28:23Z

Many thanks for checking that for me Su, but I can't seem to fix the problem here.

[Here's a sample page](http://www.gyford.com/temp/recent_comments_test.html) including the MT code I'm using in an index template, and a list of recent comments to show that more Entries should appear.

Anything obvious I've done wrong there, or is there some other weirdness at play?

Comment from Phil Gyford on 2008-08-14

2008-08-14T14:29:06Z

Many thanks for checking that for me Su, but I can't seem to fix the problem here.

Anything obvious I've done wrong there, or is there some other weirdness at play?

Comment from Phil Gyford on 2008-08-14

2008-08-14T14:30:33Z

(Oops, sorry for duplicate... seems it's possible to go 'Back' to a previous page and submit the same comment again.)

Comment from Phil Gyford on 2008-08-19

2008-08-19T16:45:26Z

The solution is to add limit="100" to the MTEntries tag, so something like:

...

If 100 isn't enough, try a larger number. No idea why this works or is needed, but it does.

Incidentally, this is only needed if the template is being published statically. If you're publishing the template dynamically, the limit modifer isn't required to get recently\_commented\_on working.