WordPress Post Hacks

WordPress Post Hacks

Create Your Own Popular Posts content in the sidebar

Highlighting the most popular posts on your site is a great way to send new visitors to your very best content and win them over.

There are a few different ways you can do this, and quite a few plugins out there to help. But why not base it on the number of comments? If you write a post that makes people talk, it must be a well written post (Most of the time…).

Popular Posts

< ?php $result = $wpdb->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) { ?>