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How to rearrange comments in WordPress - Show most recent on top

Rearranging comments to show the latest one on top is becoming a new trend that more and more top bloggers are implementing on their site. If your blog has a lot of user interaction, then this option should be your choice because recent comments are often hidden in the last few pages or at the bottom. In this article, we'll show you how you can rearrange your comments and display the most recent one at the top.

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The default method

Simply go to Settings »Discussion . Under the Other comment settings , you will find the option, Comments should be displayed with previous comments at the top of each page . Click the dropdown menu and select Latest. After that, you have to click on the Save changes button at the bottom of the page to store your settings.

How to rearrange comments in WordPress - Show most recent on top

That's it, WordPress will now display the most recent comments at the top.

Alternative method

If for some reason the default method doesn't work for you, then you can try it. Simply add this code in your theme's functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin.

 función wpb_reverse_comments ($ comentarios) return array_reverse ($ comentarios); add_filter ('comments_array', 'wpb_reverse_comments'); 

This code uses the comments_array filter to reverse the display of comments on your WordPress site.

That's it, we hope this article helped you to rearrange comments in WordPress to display the most recent one on top.

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