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WordPress provides a built-in function to display the total number of comments on a given post; this plugin extends that functionality to show the number of separate threaded discussions included within that total. No theme modifications are required.

New in This Version

• Removed PluginSponsors.com code following threats that the plugin would be expelled from the plugin repository for using the code to display sponsorship messages

For more details on the threats which have removed financial support for this plugin, see GregsPlugins.com. Following the initial threats, we have now been told that NO type of passive loading of an external resource for advertising purposes or sponsorship purposes will be permitted without explicit prior opt-in by the user -- i.e., no JavaScript, no iframes, no plain image loading of any kind. If you see any type of advertising of any kind in any plugin which loads any resource from any external server, you will know that this policy is not yet being fairly, uniformly and impartially applied. When it is fairly and uniformly and impartially applied, you will no longer see any type of advertising loading any external resource unless you have explicitly opted into seeing it.

For more details on what's new in the latest main release, version 1.2, please see the update announcement: WordPress Plugins Get Performance Boost

Background

WordPress 2.7 introduced native comment threading, enabling your blog's readers to reply directly to one another's comments. But while WordPress keeps track of the total number of comments on a given post, providing a function which theme creators can use to show that total, it doesn't offer any easy way to track how many of the comments have wound up initiating threaded conversations.

This plugin counts those conversation threads for you and displays the total -- with no theme modifications required. You can even choose to show conversation totals on your post and comment admin pages.

For extra flexibility, coders can also tap into the plugin's core function directly.

This plugin counts any sequence of threaded replies to a top-level comment as a single 'conversation'. However many times a conversation might branch off into further threaded replies, the plugin still counts it just once.

For more information, please see the 'Instructions' tab available from this plugin's admin interface.

Author: GregMulhauser