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1. J5ONFIELD
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I've read over the topics on comments_number but i cant figure out why my post number is always "There's zero responses for this post" when i do have posts.

   If you can help take a look...
   http://www.teamxmods.com/doityourself-blaster360-cheapmod/

   You can see on the right that its not showing the correct amount of posts?

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   My sidebar2.php
   <div id="sidebarpostdata">

   Posted on <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> at <?php the_time('g:i a'); ?> by <?php the_author() ?> in <?php the_category(', ') ?>. There's <?php comments_number('zero responses','one response','% responses'); ?> for this post.

   </div>
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   My Comments.php
   <h2 id="comments"><?php comments_number(__('Zero Comments'), __('1 Comment'), __('% Comments')); ?>
   <?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
   ">»
   <?php endif; ?>
   </h2>
   ------------------------------------------
   My Single.php
   <?php

   comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p><div class="divider"></div></div>
   </div>

   <?php comments_template(); ?>
   -------------------------------------------

   Thanks,
   Jason

2. rudolf45
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Is that tag within the Loop?
   Read: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/comments_number

3. Aleister
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Display the number of comments for the current post outside the loop:

   <?php
   global $wpdb, $table_prefix, $wp_query;
   $post_id = $wp_query->post->ID;
   $num_comments = $wpdb->get_var("
     SELECT COUNT(1) FROM {$table_prefix}comments
     WHERE comment_post_ID = " . $post_id . "
     AND comment_approved = '1'
   ");
   echo $num_comments;
   ?>

   There is probably a more efficient way to do this, but it works :)

   (This only works on single post pages obviously)

4. J5ONFIELD
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I put your code into my sidebar2.php and replaced the non-working code and its work great now.

   THANK YOU!

5. gunn0r
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Aleister,

   Thank you so much!
   I crawled nearly the whole net to find a solution on how to check and display the number of comments outside the loop!

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