Happy new year! To get started with this new year, what about displaying a list of the 10 most commented posts of 2008 to your readers? That’s obviously a great way to give a second life to your old posts.

To display a list of your 10 most commented posts from 2008, simply paste the following code on your blog sidebar, or anywhere on your theme:

 <h2>Most commented posts from 2008</h2> <ul> <?php $result = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title, post_date FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_date BETWEEN '2008-01-01' AND '2008-12-31' ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 10");  foreach ($result as $topten) {     $postid = $topten->ID;     $title = $topten->post_title;     $commentcount = $topten->comment_count;     if ($commentcount != 0) {     ?>          <li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($postid); ?>"><?php echo $title ?></a></li>     <?php } } ?> </ul> 

That’s all! Hope you (and your readers!) like it 🙂
Best wishes to all of you and your families for 2009, have a happy and sucessfull year!