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Hide Number of Comments if None in WordPress

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This post was published 1 year 8 months 15 days ago which may make it a bit inaccurate or irrelevant today. Things change and I cant keep checking old posts for validity. I wont be held responsible for any misunderstanding. Leon - Reverb Studios

Just a quick one to tidy up your blog a little and make it a little less negative! It’s quite common to see a list of posts on a WordPress blog with meta info underneath each one displaying things like Post Time, Post Category, Author and the number of Comments the article has. For smaller blogs, there probably wont be too many comments left so you’ll see “No Comments” or “0 Comments” under a lot of the posts. I’ve always thought this looked a little sad on my own blog. Like, here I am slaving away on these excellent and informative articles and no one is reading or commenting on them!? Here’s a quick code edit to hide the “No Comments” text if there are none but show the number of comments and link to them if there are any.

Open the index.php file for your theme in a HTML editor and look for a line similar to this:

<?php comments_popup_link(’0 Comments’, ’1 Comment’, ‘% Comments ‘); ?>

Change this to:

<?php comments_popup_link(”, ’1 Comment’, ‘% Comments ‘); ?>

You’re just deleting any text that should be displayed when there are no comments so if there are none, then nothing will be shown. Geddit!?

You might need to edit this line in several other template files also such as Archive.php, Category.php, Search.php, Tag.php and anywhere else comment numbers are displayed.

Leon.

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Posted in How to Guides, Wordpress Tips on September 2nd, 2010

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http://www.ivanwalsh.com Ivan

Hi Leon,

Tried this on my site above and no joy. It there any where else I need to change this line. Only found the exact line in the index.php and not in the others eg comments.php?

Any thought, pls!

Ivan

http://www.reverbstudios.ie Leon

It should really have worked if you done it properly and are displaying all your posts on the home page, however, I don’t see any reference to comments at all in your home page articles? I only see a comment number reference on the actual article page itself so you should probably look at your “single.php” template file instead. All templates are wildly different so bare that in mind.

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