Comments on: How to Create a Comments Central Page Template in WordPress

By: Farfisa

Farfisa — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:05:13 +0000

Hi Leland,
This is great for my wife’s site. She’s a writer.
I’ll go to make it fo her. Very handy.

I found your page in my search for a little trick, but seems to be not used… but I think it’s an handy trick wich should used on many site who carry a testimonial page, for example. I also presum it’s an easy snippet to write but I’m not a php king…
It’s: grabing the comments_count/number from the testimonial page (wich is a page, not a post), and print it into the sidebar.

I turn around things like http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_comments_number , but cannot get it to work

Do you think you can help me please?
I’m using Sandbox theme.

By: Omar

Omar — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:45:12 +0000

Great tutorial Hafiz!

And if I’m not wrong this is the first guest post? if so woot!
Maybe I’ll be next

By: Hafiz Rahman

Hafiz Rahman — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:02:57 +0000

Learn something new every day. Will take a good look at that function, thanks Ptah

By: Ptah Dunbar

Ptah Dunbar — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:25:04 +0000

Exactly, _wp_get_comment_list() returns an array of all comments so from there, you would simply run a foreach loop.

By: Leland

Leland — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:01:42 +0000

Hey Kim, awesome. Let us know how it works out once you implement it.

By: Leland

Leland — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:01:10 +0000

Hey Ptah, glad you found it useful. I was actually thinking of implementing a similar page here too because I think it’s a good way to “reward’ good commenters.

And thanks for the tip about the raw SQL queries. I’m assuming that could essentially replace any instances of code like this?

$sql = "SELECT p.*, ..."; // and so on $results = $wpdb->get_results($sql);

By: Kim Parsell

Kim Parsell — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:59:27 +0000

Definitely some things here that I want to implement on my photoblog once I get it converted to WordPress. Thanks!

By: Ptah Dunbar

Ptah Dunbar — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:34:14 +0000

Great idea, I might implement something like this for my site.

Just an FYI: instead of doing raw queries, try using this:

include ( ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/template.php’ );
_wp_get_comment_list( ‘approved’, false, 0, 20, 0, ‘comment’ );