Tag Page Post Listing Order

Hello, In the tag template, I would like to display the most commented posts at the top. Currently, it shows the listing by the published date (DESC). However, I want to display the posts in the descending order starting with the most commented post first.

Please let me know how to achieve this?

Thanks.

Hi Simion, Thanks for the reply.

I’m looking for a simple fix without any extra plugin. Could you tell me where the loop for tag page is located? Is that in includes/wp_booster/td_data_source.php module where I could adjust the order by in wp_query object?

Could you please tell me where can I find that piece of code that picks up the posts for a given tag page?

Thanks, JK

Perfect. Works like a charm.

Thanks.

I made 1 more correction to the function (see below). If we don’t check query_vars array for tag data presence, it affects the side-bar widgets like recent posts block. This fixes that issue.

if ( is_tag() )
{
if( $query->query_vars['tag'] !== "" )
$query->set( 'orderby', 'comment_count' );
}

return $query;