Title: Most Commented Posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Most Commented Posts

 *  [Alkorr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alkorr/)
 * (@alkorr)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/most-commented-posts/)
 * Hi! I’ve found a great short code to show the last X most commented posts. But
   it seems it doesn’t work very well as it’s actually not showing the most commented
   posts…
 * Here is my code:
 *     ```
       <?php $popular = new WP_Query('orderby=comment_count&posts_per_page=6'); ?>
       <?php while ($popular->have_posts()) : $popular->the_post(); ?>	
   
       <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Read: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
   
       <?php endwhile; ?>
       <?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
       ```
   
 * See, it’s simple (contrary to the many codes I’ve seen before…) but it doesn’t
   work. Any help is welcome! Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [Alkorr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alkorr/)
 * (@alkorr)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/most-commented-posts/#post-2191823)
 * No idea? I took a look at other codes to get the most commented posts but these
   codes are huge……… so many lines and database queries.
 * I’m puzzled!
 *  Thread Starter [Alkorr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alkorr/)
 * (@alkorr)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/most-commented-posts/#post-2191871)
 * I know what’s wrong!! It is because of a special loop I use in my header! But
   I’m afraid only alchymyth can help me on this issue… If you read this thread 
   my friend, could you please help me?
 * The problem is the 6 most commented posts are showning but above them appear 
   my 3 sticky posts (from the loop in my header, remember this thread: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-not-duplicate-post-covering-2-queries](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-not-duplicate-post-covering-2-queries)).
 * I don’t want to exclude all stickies from the list of the most commented posts(
   because a sticky post can be among the most comments posts of course) but I just
   want the stickies not to show above this list only because they are stickies…
 * Geez, WordPress loops are killing me… But thanks for your help! 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Alkorr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alkorr/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/most-commented-posts/#post-2191871)
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