I’ve done a bit of tinkering with the blog. You may or may not have noticed that the category archives are now paginated (some of those pages were getting rather long). To satisfy my own curiosity, I’ve also created a page to list the most commented-on posts. I was expecting the Parcelforce rant to come out at the top, but instead it’s my review of Eragon. Teenage fantasy beats adult frustration.

By the way, the Eragon review is also the only post to receive comments containing the word “LOL” (is LOL a word?) and the only one where I am addressed as “u”.

The pagination magic was done with the MTPaginate plugin and the comment filtering with MTSQL, as suggested on the Movable Type community forums. Both plugins were really easy to use and did exactly what I wanted. The SQL script for filtering by comment count just needed a slight tweak to ignore junk comments, and another one to sort posts by date if the comment count is the same.