Most Commented Block

Hi
I am using the Most Commented option for a block on my homepage to show the most popular articles by comment. Is there a way to set a date restriction, otherwise the most popular commented articles of all-time will forever appear at the top.

I would like to restrict it to a number of weeks or months, so that other more recent articles will eventually appear in the list.

I would prefer not to have to exclude articles by ID, as this will end up taking more time and manual intervention to maintain.

Could we add it to the development list, as websites that have been going for years would have a big problem with this?

So now it has been almost 6 years since this small feature request…

I definitely need to have Filters > Sort by -option for the Most commented FOR A TIME PERIOD.

Like you have have for Popular with either All time, Last 24 hours, Last 48 hours, and Last 7 days. And even one of these would be ok, but now there is only “all time”… Otherwise really doesn’t service it’s purpose if I get a listing of several years old posts, as I’m building a news site that is publishing 10++ articles daily.

Building any meaningful Newspaper site need to have this filter option. I know your competitor JNews theme has it.

If you are unable to fill this feature request soon, can you at least write a guide on how to add such a filtering option programmatically (I’m a professional software developer, but this is a really basic feature request everybody should have)?

Thank you!