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June 3rd, 2007 by Spud Oregon
With a few simple tweaks to my Random Posts plugin for Wordpress, I was able to magic up a “Most Commented Posts” plugin. As the name suggests, this plugin returns a list of posts from your archives which have received the most comments. I also added the option of displaying the number of comments next to the post title.
Here are some benefits of giving readers a list of most commented posts:
- It directs them to popular posts.
- It encourages more comments.
- It increases the time visitors spend on your site.
- It helps advertisers decide which posts to buy a post level text link ad on.
You can see my Most Commented Posts plugin in action on the archives page.
View the ReadMe file - all the instructions are here.
Download most_commented_posts.zip - ReadMe file included.
Update: July 18th 2007 - Azmeen from HTNet has turned this plugin into a widget, so you can just drag and drop it wherever you like on a widget-enabled Wordpress theme. Many thanks Azmeen! Get the Most Commented Posts Widget.
Update: June 5th 2007 - Now you can limit it to posts that have been commented on within the last X days.
If you use this on your blog, please let me know about it!
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Posted on June 3rd, 2007 in Wordpress.
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Wow, that’s a very useful plugin, indeed. I’m going to give it a spin on my blog, maybe… next week.
Thanks for sharing.
Woah. Another one of your WP Plugins! Great! I have tried out your plugins and I am very pleased with it. However, I think the only thing I shall be using is the Random Messages plugin because it will prove useful to my blog. The other plugins, they are great although I don’t think I can be able to accomodate them.
Suggestion: It would be nice if you’re plugin can support widgets. Although it wouldnt be necessary. I was just thinking that some people are not that good when it comes to codes, so by having a feature that can be used as a widget it would be much easier for them.
I’ll shoot you a comment the moment I have placed it up on my blog.
Thanks Karlo. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t know where to start in making a widget. Actually, I’ve never even used one. There may be better alternatives to my plugins out there, maybe even “widgetable” ones, I just haven’t gone looking for them because I enjoy trying to make my own.
Converting a plug-in into a widget typically is really easy. If it’s something you want to do, let me know, and I’ll give you a hand.
But wouldn’t I need to set up a widget-ready theme to test it? If anyone would like to take this plugin and improve it or widgetize it, feel free to do so!
Yeah, the theme would need to be widget-ready. I have a testing blog on my localhost with a few widget-ready themes, so I’ll see if I can find some time to widgetize it tomorrow.
If you do, host it on your blog and I’ll link to your widgetable version from this post.
Nice! I currently have the Top Post By Comments plug-in installed, but I’m working on a redesign right now, which includes making access to posts more accessible with plug-ins like the one you mention here. I’ll definitely check it out!
Cool I think I will install that
I’ve created a monster! Three plugins in less than a month…very cool.
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Thanks for the link! Much appreciated.
By the way, my name is Azmeen, not Azeem
Whoops! Sorry. I’ve corrected it now.
Great plugin and I’ve installed it now but is there a way for it to take into account comments made before the installation date?
Scrub the above, upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress fixed it for me.
I’ve installed the plugin on my blog
Check it out. Works like a charm, great stuff Spud!
Great plugin (and widget is just cool!), Thanks! Using it on one of my blogs now (Luckyeveryday.info) and probably will use on more soon
Thanks again!
hello:
i wanted to know if this plug in takes into account the whole of the archive, or a mobile time-window.
thanks!
alejandro
The whole archive, but you can limit it to the last X days (90 days, 365 days, etc.).
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