Title: Comment Leader Hack Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Comment Leader Hack * Resolved doniboy * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/) * Not real familiar with WP yet, so alert me of any problems. **Download** [wp_comment_leaders](http://www.verbalexpressions.com/ws_cl.php)** Tag** `` **Arguments Definition:** 1. A number that limits the amount of records that are to be shown. (default’s ‘ 5’) 2. A string that excludes certain names from appearing in the list. Separate multiple names with a comma. 3. A number: pads the visitor’s total comment count with zeros. 4. A string to display before the record. 5. A string to display after the record. (default is a line break ‘ ‘) 6. **Example** ` Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 39 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Orbit Juice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orbitjuice/) * (@orbitjuice) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33415) * Sweet script. Good work. I tweaked it a little to the output format I wanted. You can see it here: [http://www.orbitjuice.com](http://www.orbitjuice.com) * [Orbit Juice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orbitjuice/) * (@orbitjuice) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33418) * Also… I edited the code for multiple and single comments. i.e.: Eric left 15 comments Will left 8 comments John left 2 comments Mary left 1 comment * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33425) * thanks 🙂 * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33429) * Yea I liked what you did so I changed it to look similar to yours… also made it so that it recognizes single and multiple, comments.also. Thanks 1. A number that limits the amount of records that are to be shown. (default’s ‘ 5’) 2. A string that excludes certain names from appearing in the list. Separate multiple names with a comma. 3. A string to display before the record. 4. A string to display between the record. (default “-“) 5. A string to display after the record. (default is a line break ‘ ‘) * Example * [Orbit Juice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orbitjuice/) * (@orbitjuice) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33430) * Here is mine. It’s a little different. It changes on the output. if ($author_comment_count! = 1) { echo “$before$comment_author_link – **$author_comment_count** comments $after”; } else { echo “$before$comment_author_link – **$author_comment_count** comment$after”; } * [southerngal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/southerngal/) * (@southerngal) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33433) * Thanks for this…another thing to play with. 😉 * [daisyhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisyhead/) * (@daisyhead) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33884) * I love this hack. I would like to make som modifications to it, but I’m unsure how. I’d like my output to look like this: Jess – 184 total last commented: ( date of last comment) on entry: (entry title last commented on w/link to entry) Is there a way to do this? * [Nick Momrik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtdewvirus/) * (@mtdewvirus) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33885) * The portion of the function that figures the last comment by an author doesn’t work. I was going to try to fix the query, but it’s not an easy one. * [Hamoudy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hamoudy/) * (@hamoudy) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33886) * Yeah I was having the same problem too. With the “Last” section. * [daisyhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisyhead/) * (@daisyhead) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33887) * MtDew, do you write all the hacks around here? 😉 Or just know everything? ‘Cuz you are all over the board helping everyone. What a guy! =) Thanks for all your help! * [Nick Momrik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtdewvirus/) * (@mtdewvirus) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33888) * I just try to help out as much as I can. 🙂 * Thread Starter Anonymous * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33889) * Daisyhead yes you can i’ll post how to do it in a sec when I figure out whats going on….. MtDewVirus, What exactly isn’t working correctly? I don’t see the problem that you are talking about. * [Nick Momrik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtdewvirus/) * (@mtdewvirus) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33890) * The query doesn’t exactly pull the ID and comment_ID for the last comment by a visitor. At least not from my testing of it. The GROUP BY messes this up. I ran into a similar problem with a hack I wrote and was able to fix it by callin for MAX(comment_ID), but then how do you get the correct ID? You can’t pull the MAX(ID) because the latest post commented on by a visitor may not be their latest comment. See what I mean? I was running the query through phpMyAdmin, trying to get the correct results but so far have been unable to. * [daisyhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisyhead/) * (@daisyhead) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33894) * You guys are great! I can live without the last date commented. I don’t mean to be such a pest. Maybe I just need to tweak my output so it will say: Jess– 184 total last on entry: (entry title last commented on w/link to entry) Is there a way to change that? * [Hamoudy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hamoudy/) * (@hamoudy) * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-leader-hack/#post-33901) * Hey Daisyhead Does the “Last” at the end of your comments leader actually works? and bring up the latest comment by that user? 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