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1. Nagore
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Hi,
   I am trying to display only comment excerpts under my posts and I would like to add a link after each excerpt to read the full comment text.

   I haven't found any information anywhere about this, so I'm starting to think that it is either really easy or is not possible.

   Any clues about this anyone?
   thanks,

   nagore

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/comment_excerpt

3. Nagore
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Hi,
   Thanks for the response.

   That's where I was looking and I'm using that but it's not giving me a link. I guess I must be putting it in the wrong place.
   I replaced the comment_text() function in the comment.php template.
   It shows the excerpt but no link, that way.

   If i put it in the page.php template instead of comments_template()
   it doesn't show anything.

   So I'm confused.
   Sorry, I must be missing something very obvious.

   thanks

4. Nagore
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Hi,
   I still haven't found a solution...

   Am I right thinking that comment_excerpt() should provide a link by itself? It doesn't work like that for me? What am I doing wrong?
   Is it wrong to replace it for comment_text() in the comments template?
   I saw some code where someone put <?php comment_excerpt(); ?><?php comment_text(); ?> one after the other. It didn't make much sense to me but I tried and it just displays the whole text of the comment after the excerpt of the comment. Not good.

   Can anybody help me? I'm afraid I don't now enough about programing to figure out what's happening here.

   any advice would be very appreciated.
   (please)
   n.

5. saucemaster
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Nagore, I had this same problem, I could find plenty of tags for comment id or comment excerpt, but nothing for a 'comment link' or 'comment url'.
   here's something i put together for a page with a list of posts and a list of latest comment for each post; there is a comment excerpt and a link to that comment on the post's page.

   <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title="link"> <?php comment_excerpt(); ?></a> <br /> by: <?php comment_author_link(); ?>

   you can see an example of it on this page.
   http://www.sisyphean.com/tag/roosevelt/

   i hope this helps.

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