[Resolved] View for Comments

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[aaronM-9]

I would like to make a view that allows me to filter out and display comments, but I noticed comments are not an option in Views. Is there a way to do this in Toolset? Specifically, I need it to pull out the comment that has the most likes on a given post (which is stored in a meta value). Thanks for any help you can offer.

- Aaron

[Nigel]

It is true that Views don't support the comment post type, not sure why but they never have.

You could try creating a View for some other post type, including a query filter for the custom field in question, and then use the wpv_filter_query API filter to modify the argument for the post_type to change it to comments.

I haven't tried it but I expect that it would probably work.

https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-filters/#wpv_filter_query

[aaronM-9]

Thanks. Before I dig deeper, aren't comments stored separately (in the "comments" table instead of "posts"), so would it actually work to treat this as a post type for filtering purposes?

[Nigel]

Doh. Of course you are right.

I was taking my cue from the question about using a View to display them and for a moment had it in mind that they were stored as posts with a type of comment, but they are indeed stored in their own table, sorry.

And that means a View cannot be used to display them, even legacy Views only supports posts, taxonomies, and users, there is no support for comments.

The official documentation for get_comments() is pretty sparse (https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_comment_query/get_comments/), you might try this guide which includes using meta query to filter comments by some custom field: hidden link

[Luo Yang]

Hello,

Toolset Views/Blocks plugins does not support WordPress Comments,
Please let me know if you still need assistance for it, thanks

[aaronM-9]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!