controlling quantity shown in 'recent blog posts' and 'recent comments'?

This has been bugging me also.

I can't find anyway of editing the block contents of blocks created by Drupal. I had thought I had seen a confuguration that lets you choose the number of entries but it was on the news aggregator. The others have no settings that I can see.
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I found the comment_block hook in comment.module and hard coded (changed the SQL limit to 5) it to a lesser amount. This should have been something added to the core functions when the block lists were created. It does not apply to all blocks like the login. But it would still be nice to be able to adjust even those.

/**
 * Implementation of hook_block().
 *
 * Generates a block with the most recent comments.
 */
function comment_block($op = 'list', $delta = 0) {
  if ($op == 'list') {
    $blocks[0]['info'] = t('Recent comments');
    return $blocks;
  }
  else if (user_access('access comments')) {
    $result = db_query_range('SELECT * FROM {comments} WHERE status = 0 ORDER BY timestamp DESC', 0, 5);
    $items = array();
    while ($comment = db_fetch_object($result)) {
      $items[] = l($comment->subject, 'node/'. $comment->nid, NULL, NULL, 'comment-'. $comment->cid) .'<br />'. t('%time ago', array('%time' => format_interval(time() - $comment->timestamp)));
    }

    $block['subject'] = t('Recent comments');
    $block['content'] = theme('item_list', $items);
    return $block;
  }
}

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This should be a feature. In block settings you should be able to change the number of comments.

In comment.module (v. 4.6.2, lines 167-170), I found the following:

    $result = db_query_range(db_rewrite_sql('SELECT c.nid, c.* FROM {comments} c WHERE c.status = 0 ORDER BY c.timestamp DESC', 'c'), 0, 10);
    $items = array();
    while ($comment = db_fetch_object($result)) {
      $items[] = l($comment->subject, 'node/'. $comment->nid, NULL, NULL, 'comment-'. $comment->cid) .'<br />'. t('%time ago', array('%time' => format_interval(time() - $comment->timestamp)));

I changed the 10 to a 5 and also took out the timestamp part so it now just lists the past 5 comments and no date/time.

    $result = db_query_range(db_rewrite_sql('SELECT c.nid, c.* FROM {comments} c WHERE c.status = 0 ORDER BY c.timestamp DESC', 'c'), 0, 5);
    $items = array();
    while ($comment = db_fetch_object($result)) {
      $items[] = l($comment->subject, 'node/'. $comment->nid, NULL, NULL, 'comment-'. $comment->cid);
    }

Its very easy to change recent post in blog block from 10 to 5.
There is db queury range code line in function blog_block function. Which is available in blog.module file. Just you need to change 10 to 5 value in the following line of function.
$result = db_query_range(db_rewrite_sql("SELECT n.nid, n.title, n.created FROM {node} n WHERE n.type = 'blog' AND n.status = 1 ORDER BY n.created DESC"), 0, 10);
This is working fine for me.
Enjoy!

here is the code i changed to make the comment block only display 5 instead of ten

edit the comment.module and look for the following

 * Find a number of recent comments. This is done in two steps.
 *   1. Find the n (specified by $number) nodes that have the most recent
 *      comments.  This is done by querying node_comment_statistics which has
 *      an index on last_comment_timestamp, and is thus a fast query.
 *   2. Loading the information from the comments table based on the nids found
 *      in step 1.
 *
 * @param $number (optional) The maximum number of comments to find.
 * @return $comments An array of comment objects each containing a nid,
 *   subject, cid, and timstamp, or an empty array if there are no recent
 *   comments visible to the current user.
 */
function comment_get_recent($number = 10) {

and change 10 to 5 or whatever number you want

you can simply use views and display anything you like.

view type: node

Filters:
node published: yes
node type: blog entry

short criteria
post date: desc

fields:
(whatever you like)
node title: (link this field to its node)
user: picture (suppose we want to also display the picture of the user who posted a blog entry)

basic settings:
items to display: 10 (or 100 or 0 for unlimited)

add block display

save and you are done.

I don't get it. Why make it a "future request" for the blog module and not use views to achieve what you want. No need to write any code, plus you can choose any fields you wish the block to display.

hope this helped

friends thanks a lot, this works perfectly ,better imposible !!!!

After there is a new Drupal core release...."Hmm, what was the search term for that page again?" "Um, limit comments block drupal? No, show number of posts drupal?" "limit showing number of posts drupal block?"