http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: Taking number of comments and displaying elsewhere en Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:26:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/272860#post-1080498 Fri, 22 May 2009 07:17:29 +0000 richarduk 1080498@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I'm looking for two things to do with the number of comments displayed:</p> <p>1) Display the total number of comments from a post category anywhere else on the site</p> <p>2) Display the TOTAL number of comments from any specified posts anywhere on the site i.e. add up the comments from specified posts and then display them. I'd obviously create a text explanation beside the total denoting where the total was from.</p> <p>I don't want a plugin because that makes me dependent on a plugin author. Am I wishing on the wind?</p> <p>Thanks :-) </p>