may need Andy to weigh in here since he wrote the blog linking plugin, but lets give it a shot…

so you are successfully getting comments synced between the blog post and the forum topic?  just the count is not correct on the blog post?

can you look in the theme comments.php file (assuming it has one) and see how it is accessing the comments? if its relatively recent theme, its likely accessing it via

wp_list_comments()

with some arguments…  I would like to know what those arguments are…

Hi Mr. Papa thank you kindly for your swift reply.

Mr Papa said 
so you are successfully getting comments synced between the blog post and the forum topic?  just the count is not correct on the blog post?

Yes you are absolutely correct.

Later today, when I get a chance, I will copy and paste the comments.php. From memory, I can confirm that it did have the ‘wp_list_comments()’.

Thank you kindly, I will be back later today!

JG

Actually we can probably do a little better than this.

The most common WP function for displaying the number of comments is a function called comments_number().

Take a look through the comments php file to see if you can find this function being used. If it is – comment it out and replace it with the following:

spCommentsNumber("0 Comments", "1 Comment", "% Comments", true);

Replacing those labels with your preferred text of course.

YellowSwordfish,

That has worked perfectly, thank you.

This is the result:

 It now displays the correct number of comments at the bottom.

I also used your code to edit the following in single.php – and it too worked. The image below shows before I used your code.

I changed ‘comments_popup_link(‘0′,’1′,’%’);’ in single.php to what you have suggested, and that has worked perfectly!

 However, I couldn’t find an obvious place to insert your code for it to work with the recent posts widget (see pic). This is what it displays on my home page – showing 5 comments, not 11. Any ideas, sir?

I suspect I have to change something with the widget?

Thank you for your help!

That one is going to be much trickier and might depend on how it is wrotten.
What widget is this? Is this the stadard Wp supplied widget or a special one supplied with theme or another plugin?

Thanks Yellow Swordfish.

This particular widget is one supplied by the Theme – the theme is called Avenue.

Would this work if I used a standard wordpress widget, you think?

As I say it depends on the code and I canlt vouch for either of them. Can you send me the widget code by any chance?

I could send you the entire widget code at your request but there’s quite a lot in there.

Searching for the term ‘comment’ this is what comes up:

Well there is that comments_popup_link() function again that you changed last time so it might be worth trying it in this code as well perhaps? Never any harm in trying!

You’re too right – never harm in trying.

I changed it to this:

<span class="block-meta"><?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?>, <?php spCommentsNumber("0 Comments", "1 Comment", "% Comments", true); ?></span>

But what it seems to have done is update ALL my posts as having 11 comments on them – even those that have no comments, 1 comment or whatever number.

Here’s a picture to explain what happened:

How can I make that comment number specific to that particular post?

Could you try making one small change to where you call the SP function? See if it helps.

This just adds one extra parameter at the end of the call…

spCommentsNumber("0 Comments", "1 Comment", "% Comments", true, the_ID());

I am hoping that might fix the issue.

Hey mate,

Thanks for your reply.

I have made the change, and the effect it has had is that it now displays an absurd number. e.g. 53912 comments, 14812 comments etc

What I have noticed is that they all end in ’12’ (which was the number of comments on the one article I have blog linked thus far).

Perhaps the first 3 digits are the ID number of the post?

Oh stupid, stupid me!

That parameter should be:

get_the_ID()

NOT

the_ID()

Sorry – try that instead.

Don’t be so hard on yourself!

Your new solution has worked.

THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN!

Brilliant!