Title: Sort by Comments?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Sort by Comments?

 *  [brakkums](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brakkums/)
 * (@brakkums)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-by-comments/)
 * Is there a way to sort by posts that have been most recently commented on?
 * Here’s my problem: I’m creating posts and then a lot of people include their 
   input by commenting on them. But whenever I or they return to the site, we have
   to root through all of the posts and remember the number of comments for each
   post. Know what I mean?
 * Say I have 6 posts I’m keeping an eye on, so when I return to the site I not 
   only need to scroll and find those particular posts, but I need to remember what
   the number of comments was for each post to tell if there’s anything new. I’d
   like it to just throw the most recently commented posts at the top of the page.
   It’d be best if it didn’t do it on the front page, but instead when sorted by
   category… Is this possible?
 * I’m running 1.5. (Which is GREAT, BTW.)
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [oriecat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oriecat/)
 * (@oriecat)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-by-comments/#post-152771)
 * That sounds complicated to me, but then i am constantly amazed at what people
   can do with this thing. But why not just have a Recent Comments section or page,
   which would show the latest comments, and link back to the posts?
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-by-comments/#post-152776)
 * oriecat’s correct, there’s a number of methods for linking/displaying recent 
   comments outside your posts.:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins#Archive](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins#Archive)
   
   [http://wiki.wordpress.org/Plugin#archive](http://wiki.wordpress.org/Plugin#archive)

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sort-by-comments/#post-152776)
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