<ul> 
< ?php 
$tags = wp_get_post_tags($post->ID); 
if ($tags) { 
$first_tag = $tags[0]->term_id; 
$args=array( 
'tag__in' => array($first_tag), 
'post__not_in' => array($post->ID), 
'showposts'=>10, 
'caller_get_posts'=>1 
); 
$my_query = new WP_Query($args); 
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) { 
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?> 
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to < ?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">< ?php the_title(); ?> < ?php comments_number(' ','(1)','(%)'); ?></a> </li> 
< ?php 
endwhile; 
} 
} 
?> 
</ul>

        < ?php
$rand_posts = get_posts('numberposts=8&orderby=rand');
foreach( $rand_posts as $post ) :
?>
        <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
          < ?php the_title(); ?>
          </a></li>
        < ?php endforeach; ?>

< ?php
$limit = get_option('posts_per_page');
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts('showposts=' . $limit=7 . '&paged=' . $paged);
$wp_query->is_archive = true; $wp_query->is_home = false;
?>
< ?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); if(!($first_post == $post->ID)) : ?>
<ul>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to < ?php the_title_attribute(); ?>">< ?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
</ul>
< ?php endif; endwhile; ?>

<ul class="most-comments"> 
< ?php $result = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT comment_count,ID,post_title FROM $wpdb->posts ORDER BY comment_count DESC LIMIT 0 , 10"); 
foreach ($result as $post) { 
setup_postdata($post); 
$postid = $post->ID; 
$title = $post->post_title; 
$commentcount = $post->comment_count; 
if ($commentcount != 0) { ?> 
<li><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($postid); ?>" title="< ?php echo $title ?>"> 
< ?php echo $title ?></a> (< ?php echo $commentcount ?>)</li> 
< ?php } } ?> 
</ul>

< ?php 
global $wpdb; 
$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT ID, post_title, post_password, comment_ID, comment_post_ID, comment_author, comment_date_gmt, comment_approved, comment_type,comment_author_url, SUBSTRING(comment_content,1,30) AS com_excerpt FROM $wpdb->comments LEFT OUTER JOIN $wpdb->posts ON ($wpdb->comments.comment_post_ID = $wpdb->posts.ID) WHERE comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type = " AND post_password = " ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT 10"; 
 
$comments = $wpdb->get_results($sql); 
$output = $pre_HTML; 
 
foreach ($comments as $comment) { 
$output .= "\n<li>". "<a href=\"" . get_permalink($comment->ID)."#comment-" . $comment->comment_ID . "\" title=\"on ".$comment->post_title . "\">".strip_tags($comment->comment_author)."</a>" .": " .strip_tags($comment->com_excerpt)."</li>"; 
} 
 
$output .= $post_HTML; 
echo $output; 
?>