Title: WP_Query comment_count
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# WP_Query comment_count

 *  Resolved [Alessio Lo Vecchio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/youon/)
 * (@youon)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_query-comment_count/)
 * Hello I would like to retrieve most commented posts. I know WP_Query has `'order_by'
   => 'comment_count'` but this is related to `'posts_per_page'`, so you get a certain
   amount of posts ordered by comment_count, not exactly “the most commented ones”…
   Have you evere faced this? Thank you

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 *  Thread Starter [Alessio Lo Vecchio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/youon/)
 * (@youon)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_query-comment_count/#post-6970250)
 * Shame on me! `'orderby'` not `'order_by'` !!!

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