From 19416faeacc85c4bdefa79392d0d34b250a20c7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Jaquith <markjaquith@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:02:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Allow ordering by comment_count. fixes #11037

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@12127 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 wp-includes/query.php | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/query.php b/wp-includes/query.php
index f09c9fe6c8..4a39dde583 100644
--- a/wp-includes/query.php
+++ b/wp-includes/query.php
@@ -2029,7 +2029,7 @@ class WP_Query {
 			$q['orderby'] = '';
 		} else {
 			// Used to filter values
-			$allowed_keys = array('author', 'date', 'title', 'modified', 'menu_order', 'parent', 'ID', 'rand');
+			$allowed_keys = array('author', 'date', 'title', 'modified', 'menu_order', 'parent', 'ID', 'rand', 'comment_count');
 			if ( !empty($q['meta_key']) ) {
 				$allowed_keys[] = $q['meta_key'];
 				$allowed_keys[] = 'meta_value';
@@ -2056,6 +2056,8 @@ class WP_Query {
 					case 'meta_value':
 						$orderby = "$wpdb->postmeta.meta_value";
 						break;
+					case 'comment_count':
+						$orderby = "$wpdb->posts.comment_count";
 					default:
 						$orderby = "$wpdb->posts.post_" . $orderby;
 				}