How Can I Show New Comments First?

Well, I found the answer through a few different Google searches using different search terms.

The solution is here:
https://gerropost.net/2008/09/how-to-comments-order-wordpress/

Hope this helps someone else.

Not quite because the link to the article has changed.

Here is the latest link

Hi,

You can use recent comments widget tool to display recent comments first.

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Hi Demonboy,

I have been posting the same question in this forum and still haven’t received any fixed to display the newer comments at the top of the page. I had set the dropdown listing to “newer” at the admin/setting/discussion, and it doesn’t work at all!

I have been to the “latest Link” you provided and it mentioned: “The trick is to reverse …..” – the line disappeared from there and I am not able to figure out the instruction. Do you think you can provide me the complete instruction here. This is most appreciated as I have been anxious to fix this for quite a long time.

Plse help.

Edmund

Hi Demonbuy,

I got it fixed. The comments are displaying the way I wanted it. Thanks for the code.

ED

No problem, though I will repeat the instructions here just so other people searching for it can understand what’s going on.

It really is VERY simple!

1. Open comments.php
2. Find the line: foreach ($comments as $comment) {
3. Immediately before that line, add $comments = array_reverse($comments);

That’s it!

thanks demonboy!

what i did, and it works fine, i simply replaced
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

with
<?php foreach (array_reverse($comments) as $comment) : ?>

now the newest comments are on the top!