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1. siruanthi
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hello, I have a page with comments on my blog. It shows the first comment first numbered as 1, 2, 3 and so on. Is there a way or a pluggin that reverses this list, so the last comment is listed first, like 3, 2, 1 ?
   Thanks.

2. skippy
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm not aware of any such plugin; but you could probably do it quickly enough.

   In your theme's comments.php file, find the line that reads:
   <?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

   Immediately above that, please this:
   <?php $comments = array_reverse($comments, true); ?>

   Note: this is untested. If it works, please let us know!

3. siruanthi
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanx very much skippy. It works fine!!! The newest/latest comment shows up first. Only thing is...is it possible to reverse the comment numbers too, because they haven't reversed.

4. siruanthi
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have a line of code in the comments-template like this:

   <h3 id="comments"><?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</h3>

   should i add such a line as you said here too ?

5. skippy
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   No. You only need the array_reverse() function immediately before the foreach ... loop.

   Try changing true to false on the array_reverse() line to swap the modify the comment numbers.

6. siruanthi
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I changed "true" to "false" . The comments are still reversed but the numbers are still the same.... Nothing happened ..

7. skippy
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Oh; right. The problem is that the comment list uses an HTML ordered list to construct the numbers:
   <ol class="commentlist">
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">

   If the comment numbers are really important to you, you could suppress the digits for the ordered list; then do something like this:
   $count = count($comments);
<ol class="commentlist">
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
<?php echo $count; ?>
// the rest of the comment loop here...
$count--;
<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>
</ol>

8. siruanthi
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hmmz, that second code didn't quite work, "$count--;" showed up between every post. I checked and double-checked if i made an error/mistake.. but numbers aren't that important to me... so i stick to your first line of code, ....it's not exactly what i wanted but close enough, thanx very much for your help effort and your patience with me :-)

9. skippy
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Sorry, that line should have read:
   <?php $count--; ?>

10. Truth
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I tried this and it works but I have to change

    $count = count($comments);

    to

    <?php $count = count($comments); ?>

    or put $count = count($comments);

    at the top inside the <?php and ?>

    for it to work.. thanks :)

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