nickthenameless

i was referring to other posts. forgive me, but it’s just taking a little longer than most forums take for a response; and i’m not used to it.

as far as bumping, i’m gonna double check this, but i don’t normally bump my posts. usually if i reply to my own posts it’s because i found the solution or have new information to add. i’m pretty sure that’s held true here too.

thank you very much otto! i had to take another step to use your advice, but it now works.

in that query.php file, on line 953, it adds the string “post_” to the beginning of the items in that array, because that is how they are named in the database (author == post_author). this change is done in a if statement because the only choice that does not have “post_” preceeding it in the db’s column names is “menu_order”. so in line 953 i replaced ‘menu_order’ with ‘comment_count’, since i always want to sort by comment count and don’t even know what menu order is.

thanks again for your help. you rock!

nm, found it. it’s in the top row of buttons when you post the link. wow, this forum really isn’t the best i’ve been too. are there other support forums for this great tool?

in hopes that this will get some sort of response from someone, i wanted to add some additional information. i got the comment_count column working now. when you post a comment it now increments. the attempt to sort posts by this count does not work however.

so the line of code above doesn’t return an error and works if you change comment_count to title (it sorts them alphabetically). i’m thinking since there’s no error, that it works, but somewhere later gets sorted again? i don’t know totally guessing on this, would love some feedback from others ??

Thank you so very much, that is it. I’m sure now that I know what it is called, I can find information on how to make it display a form instead of a picture.

I guess the WP system uses similar code to do the form to add custom text to the sidebar?