Sort by Comments

Description:
Adds some forum functionality to WordPress. Changes the order of posts so that the most recently commented posts show up first. Also displays last comment with the posts. Changes affect home page only. Intended for use with the Prologue theme (about), but should play nicely with other themes as well.

Download:
Fetch the latest version (0.1.1)!

Install:

Download and unzip the plugin.
Upload to /wp-content/plugins/
Navigate to Dashboard > Plugins and activate the plugin

Changelog:
0.1.1
- Querys all posts and sorts them by [most recent comment | date published] (whichever is more recent) before displaying the home page
- Displays the last comment (if any) with each post on the home page
- Links to normal view instead of using pagination. (In normal view, pagination is same as always)

13 kommentarer

Kirkns

Posta 20. March 2008 kl 18:46 | Permalenke

favorited this one, bro

Thomas

Posta 27. March 2008 kl 9:40 | Permalenke

Kirkns: Glad you liked it!

Wa7di

Posta 21. February 2009 kl 11:54 | Permalenke

Hello,

I would like to first thank you for such an innovation! I really needed it.
I just had a question, if I may. I would like the plugin to sort my posts by latest comment, but I would not like it to view the last comment on the front page or anything that wouldn’t show if I wasn’t using the plugin. I just would like it to change the order of posts, and let them show as it is.
How can I do this?

Thanks for your time,
SA

Thomas

Posta 24. February 2009 kl 23:16 | Permalenke

You’ll need to edit the plugin file. Near the bottom of the file, comment out the line

add_filter('the_content','sbc_displayLastComment');

Add two slashes at the start of the line, like this:

// add_filter('the_content','sbc_displayLastComment');

Moritz

Posta 17. March 2009 kl 12:46 | Permalenke

Nice Plugin, thanks for writing it! But i’m having a problem in Wordpress 2.71 – it only shows many, many Versions of one post. Has anyone already succeded in porting it to WP 2.7? I believe that some comment-tables changed… Thanks again! M

Thomas

Posta 17. March 2009 kl 16:02 | Permalenke

As far as I know, no forks(, ports or anything at all, really) exist. I can confirm that the plugin is not tested with 2.7.

I would love to upgrade the plugin, but I can’t find the time just now. If anyone would like to help, please let me know.

Seregey

Posta 20. March 2009 kl 9:57 | Permalenke

Is there any way to make this plugin work at whole blog (not only the main page)?

Thomas

Posta 20. March 2009 kl 10:24 | Permalenke

Seregey: Not that I know of, sorry.

ufo

Posta 9. April 2009 kl 12:22 | Permalenke

I’ve got a blog with 2100 entries and 5000 comments: I need this plugin but my blog became so slow! (cpu at 100%, 20 sec to rebuild home page)
Is there a way to limit all the queries to the last 10 entries and the last last 20 comments?
Is there any other ways to use this plugin with a large number of posts and comments?

Thomas

Posta 9. April 2009 kl 18:05 | Permalenke

Line 42 reads:

while(have_posts()):

To limit the plugin to search through the 10 latest posts, change it to:

while( $postCounter<10 && have_posts() ):

I’m pretty sure this plugin could be rewritten to scale better, but unfortunately I do not have enough time on my hands. Please let me know if you can use it for something useful!