Comments on: Sort Posts by Comment Count in WordPress

By: Brett Sanders

Brett Sanders — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:16:49 +0000

Hi, this is exactly what I am after. Thanks.
I was just wondering what template you need to edit for this?
If you can help me at all that would be great.

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:42:00 +0000

I hope you can help me. I need to create a page that sort posts by recent comment, not by comment count in WordPress. Many Thanks…
Ted

By: Michael Fields

Michael Fields — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:08:36 +0000

Hi I stumbled upon your site today while researching if this was possible. I found out that it was possible to accomplish this task without the use of a custom query. Here’s the solution that I came up with:

add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘order_posts_by_comment_count’ );
function order_posts_by_comment_count( $query ) {
if ( is_home() )
$query->set( ‘orderby’, ‘comment_count’ );
$query->set( ‘order’, ‘DESC’ );
return $query;
}
best wishes,
-Mike

By: moyo

moyo — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:54:58 +0000

Looks like I’ve found the solution by myself. Anyway thanks for your post.

By: moyo

moyo — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:13:26 +0000

Any ideas how to make this SQL for posts current category?

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:25:55 +0000

Many thanks, especially for not sticking it in a plugin.

By: kristarella

kristarella — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:15:23 +0000

Thanks! Just what I needed.

I couldn’t get it to work until I changed FROM wp_posts to FROM $wpdb->posts. I’m not sure if that’s an error or perhaps a quirk because I’m using WPMU.

Cheers.