Anyone heard of a plugin to count number of comments by author?

[thewpguy]

Any ideas. Have a friend that has a post with 500+ comments and he wants to know how many comments each commentor has contributed. Users are not required to log in to make comments. They just put in the usual name, email, website details in.

I think he might want to display the number of comments the person has made beside the their name on the comments too.

[Rarst]

Tried looking through official repository?

This seems to fit
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-counter/

[Ryan]

That's simple enough I'd probably just stick into the theme itself.

All you'd need to do is as each comment is processed, put each of the names into an array and if the same name is repeated then bump the value up by 1, at the end just check which name in the array is the highest and there's your answers. You can then echo it onto the page wherever you want.

[Ryan]

Actually, you would probably want more than the name of course as multiple people may have the same name. It looks like the plugin Rarst linked to does all of that anyway though.