Displaying most commented entries

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1 Overview
2 Using the Macro
3 Photoblog Example
4 Output

Overview

Display a list of the most commented entries on a blog. This can be done in a couple of ways; either by using the Macro to display a list of entries or by using the $model object.

Using the Macro

The macro is simple to include in your page templates and displays a list of the most commented entries and the number of comments of each entry. See the #showMostCommentedWeblogEntriesList documentation for details and an example.

Photoblog Example

For photoblogs, it can be useful to display a thumbnail image in-place of a text link. The following code shows an example of how to do this:

#set($comEntries = $model.weblog.getMostCommentedWeblogEntries(5) )
<div>
#foreach ($comEntry in $comEntries)
    #set($image = $comEntry.image)
    #set($thumb = $image.thumbSquare)
    <span>
        <a href="$url.entry($comEntry.anchor)" title="$comEntry.commentCount comments for $comEntry.title"><img src="$url.photo($thumb.path)" width="$thumb.width" height="$thumb.height" alt="#showImageAltTag($image)" /></a>
    </span>
#end
</div>

Output

Using the demo blog the following is the output from the above code:

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