I haven’t kept on top of my promise to become more regular with my articles on this blog, I’ve relied heavily on guest posts and I’m hoping to correct this very soon. In the mean time I thought I would answer a common request and post a useful trick for displaying the most popular posts on your blog.

If you look at the top of this blog you will see a section that is called ‘The Most Popular Articles On IND Today’ this is a list of the seven most commented on posts on my blog. People often ask me how I managed to do this.

Well here it is.

You simply insert the following code into your sidebar, or whichever file you wish (header, footer, etc), don’t forget to change the amount of posts to show, I have seven listed but you might want more or less.

[sourcecode language='css']

The Most Popular Articles On IND Today

get_results(“SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 5″);
foreach ($result as $post) {
setup_postdata($post);
$postid = $post->ID;
$title = $post->post_title;
$commentcount = $post->comment_count;
if ($commentcount != 0) { ?>
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