small mod to the get_slides function to display the most popular posts

Hi all,

I have made a small modification to the get_slides function (in tools.php) in order to get the most popular posts.

The default posts option gets the most recent posts (source = ‘posts: recent’) The modification allows you to select the posts with the most comments (source = ‘posts: popular’).

This is the modified code in tools.php:

// Source: posts
		if ( $args['source']['type'] === 'posts' ) {

			switch ( $args['source']['val'] ) {
				case 'recent':
					break;
				case 'popular':
					$query['orderby'] =	'comment_count DESC';
					break;
				default:
					$query['post__in'] = (array) explode( ',', $args['source']['val'] );
					$query['orderby'] = 'post__in';
			}
		}

Example of its use :

[su_carousel source="<strong>posts: popular</strong>" limit="5" link="post" height="400" items="1" autoplay="3000"]

Is there any way to prevent that my modifications are overwritten by a new version of the plugin ?

Or can this be implemented in a future release ?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Effevee

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