Help with ‘Most Commented’ and post images plugin….

  • Hi everyone

    I’m working on a new WordPress theme for my blog. It uses the https://guff.szub.net/post-image
    plugin for pulling up an image with each post.

    However, I’m now trying to incorporate this feature with a ‘Most Commented’ plugin, i.e. taking something like https://mtdewvirus.com/code/wordpress-plugins/ and some how fitting the call to the database for the post_image() somewhere in the script.

    Or, maybe we could re-do the following script, which I already use for a list of recent posts, so that it calls the three most commented posts, rather than the three most recent…

    <?php
$imgposts = new WP_Query('showposts=3');
if($imgposts->have_posts()) : while($imgposts->have_posts()) : $imgposts->the_post(); ?>
	<ul class="recentposts">
		<li class="recent_post clearfix" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
			<div class="posttitle clearfix">
				<a class="postimagelink" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img alt="Post icon" class="postimage" src="<?php post_image('shared/images/post_default.png', false, false); ?>" width="35" height="35" /></a>
 				<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
				<p class="meta">
				Posted <?php the_date('d-m-y'); ?> under <?php the_category(' &amp; ') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('Comments (0)', 'Comments (1)', 'Comments (%)', 'commentlink', ''); ?> </p>
			</div>
		</li>
	</ul>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

    If you can help me with this – you’re a superstar!

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  • Thread Starter neilc

    (@neilc)

    Found the fix. I read through the mountains of comments left on the authors post for the plugin, and ‘Reid Beels’ suggested altering a ‘couple of the global calls’ at the top of the plugin file (didn’t say which exactly).

    I’ve replaced these lines (51 & 52);

    `global $post, $posts, $wp_version, $wpdb;
    global $post_image_attachments;`

    With these;

    `global $post, $wp_version, $wpdb, $wp_query;
    global $post_image_attachments;

    if($wp_query->posts!=$posts)
    $post_image_attachments=”;

    $posts = $wp_query->posts;`

    As you’ve seen in my previous comment, I’ve been using $imgposts = new WP_Query('showposts=5'); to pull up the ‘Recent Post’ images, whereas Reid Beel says that he uses query_posts()

    So I changed my calls to WordPress to use the following;

    <?php query_posts('showposts=3'); ?>

			  <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
				<ul class="recentposts">
					<li class="recent_post clearfix" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
						<div class="posttitle clearfix">
							<a class="postimagelink" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><img alt="Post icon" class="postimage" src="<?php post_image('/shared/images/post_default.jpg', false, false); ?>" width="35" height="35" /></a>
			 				<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
							<p class="meta">
							Posted <?php the_date('d-m-y'); ?> under <?php the_category(' &amp; ') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('Comments (0)', 'Comments (1)', 'Comments (%)', 'commentlink', ''); ?> 

						</div>
					</li>
				</ul>
			<?php endwhile; ?>

    And if you check the ‘Recent Posts’ section on my homepage, https://dotneil.com you’ll see that all the icons and the commentlinks show! I’ve been working on this one for ages, so I’m very pleased!

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