WP1.52: Comments -can I change from descending to ascending?

/wp-includes/comment-functions.php

Right near the top is this line:
$comments = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '$post->ID' AND comment_approved = '1' ORDER BY comment_date DESC");

only when you see it, the DESC at the end isn’t there. Add it.

then look a few lines further down and you’ll see pretty much the same line. Again, add DESC at the end.
That should flip your comments over ??

Note: This is a core file so make a note of this so you can replicate the change if you upgrade.

Thanks ??

If this is now resolved, could you please mark the thread as resolved? There’s a link at the top, just above the thread (below the title) to do this.

-tg

Hmm…. I just tried this and I get:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/…../wp-includes/comment-functions.php on line 730

I tried and made sure I did it right.

I got it to work. When I had used the cpanel editor to make the change it didn’t like it, but when I edited it offline and uploaded it, it was fine. Weird.

Anyway, one other thing though. I sure would be nice to have the numbering on the comments change too.

Seems like a lot of people want this, enough to make it an option in WP. Or a plugin at least.