Display Last Months Most Commented Posts as Thumbnail

Are you looking for a way to show your most commented posts as the thumbnail? While there’s probably a plugin for this, we have created a quick code snippet that you can use to display last months most commented posts as thumbnail in WordPress.

Instructions:

All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:

function most_wps_popular_thumbnail(){

    $current_month = date('n');
    if($current_month==1){ $last_month=12; }else{ $last_month=$current_month-1; }

    $args = array(
	'posts_per_page' => 4,
	'monthnum'       => $last_month,
	'orderby'        => 'comment_count',
     );
    ?>
   <h1>Most popular snippets</h1> 
<?php query_posts($args); ?>
<?php  while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_post_thumbnail( 'thumbnail' ); ?></a>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php 
wp_reset_query();
}

Add this code snippet in your theme’s file where you wish to display the posts thumbnails.

<?php most_wps_popular_thumbnail(); ?>

Note: If this is your first time adding code snippets in WordPress, then please refer to our guide on how to properly copy / paste code snippets in WordPress, so you don’t accidentally break your site.

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