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Display User with the Most Comments with Count, Email, Author URL

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You can filter the comments in WordPress to display user with the most comments with count, email, author URL, etc.

Instructions: Add the following code to the functions.php file of your WordPress theme.
Use $result->comment_author_email, $result->comments_count, $result->comment_author_url, to add additional parameters to this code.

function top_comment_authors($amount = 5) {
global $wpdb;
$results = $wpdb->get_results('
    SELECT
    COUNT(comment_author_email) AS comments_count, comment_author_email, comment_author, comment_author_url
    FROM '.$wpdb->comments.'
    WHERE comment_author_email != "" AND comment_type = "" AND comment_approved = 1
    GROUP BY comment_author_email
    ORDER BY comments_count DESC, comment_author ASC
    LIMIT '.$amount
);
$output = "<ul>";
foreach($results as $result) {
    $output .= "<li>".$result->comment_author."</li>";
}
$output .= "</ul>";
echo $output;
}

Simply use this code in your template files to show user with most comments.

<? top_comment_authors(); ?>

You may also enjoy enabling threaded comments in WordPress.

Comments   Leave a Reply

  1. David Keulert May 12, 2012 at 1:30 am

    How can i only show the most commented user of a motnh? not all time only a month

  2. exactly i was looking for this code. you have done it for me 🙂 thanks it was helpful for my newly theme.

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