comment_excerpt() │ WP 1.2.0

Displays a trimmed comment (maximum 20 words).

Uses: get_comment_excerpt()
1 time — 0.000975 sec (slow) | 50000 times — 5.40 sec (fast)
Hooks from the function

Returns

null.

Usage

<?php comment_excerpt( $comment_ID ); ?>
$comment_ID(int/object)
ID or object of the comment "quote" to retrieve.
Default: 0 - current comment

Examples

0

#1 Demo 

<p>Latest comment: <?php comment_excerpt(); ?></p>

Displays:

<p>Latest comment: Can you please teach me the correct way to use this plugin to count the number of clicks on external…</p>

Changelog

Since 1.2.0 Introduced.
Since 4.4.0 Added the ability for $comment_id to also accept a WP_Comment object.

comment_excerpt() code WP 6.9.1

wp-includes/comment-template.php 
function comment_excerpt( $comment_id = 0 ) {
	$comment = get_comment( $comment_id );

	$comment_excerpt = get_comment_excerpt( $comment );

	/**
	 * Filters the comment excerpt for display.
	 *
	 * @since 1.2.0
	 * @since 4.1.0 The `$comment_id` parameter was added.
	 *
	 * @param string $comment_excerpt The comment excerpt text.
	 * @param string $comment_id      The comment ID as a numeric string.
	 */
	echo apply_filters( 'comment_excerpt', $comment_excerpt, $comment->comment_ID );
}

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