WordPress: List posts with no comments
You can set up a filter and query varaible to modify the SQL that queries the posts. Add this to your theme's functions.php
file
function filter_comment_count( $sql ){ global $wpdb; $comment_count = get_query_var( 'comment_count' ); if( is_numeric($comment_count) ) $sql .= $wpdb->prepare( " AND {$wpdb->posts}.comment_count = %d ", $comment_count ); return $sql;}
Then you can call query_posts( 'comment_count=0' );
(any number), you'll just want to add the filter beforehand,
add_filter( 'posts_where', 'filter_comment_count' );
And after you make the call, you may want to remove the filter as well.
remove_filter( 'posts_where', 'filter_comment_count' );
Unfortunately query_posts does not allow you to limit the query to comment_count=0
. You can do this:
query_posts( 'orderby=comment_count&order=ASC' );
But that does not only display posts with zero comments, it just displays those with zero comments first.
The more involved (but better) solution is to use a custom query that specifically limits the query to posts with 0 comments, but that means you would have to create your own loop structure (at least so far as I can tell)
global $wpdb;$query = " SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->prefix}posts WHERE {$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_type = 'post' AND {$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_status = 'publish' AND {$wpdb->prefix}posts.comment_count = 0 ORDER BY {$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_date DESC;";$pageposts = $wpdb->get_results($query, OBJECT); <?php if ($pageposts): ?> <?php global $post; ?> <?php foreach ($pageposts as $post): ?> <?php setup_postdata($post); ?> <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"> <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"> <?php the_title(); ?></a></h2> <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small> <div class="entry"> <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry »'); ?> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?> <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p> </div> <?php endforeach; ?> <?php else : ?> <h2 class="center">Not Found</h2> <p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p> <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?> <?php endif; ?>
Does that seem within your knowledge to implement?