Title: Comment Count Incorrect After Purging Pingbacks
Last modified: December 7, 2019

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# Comment Count Incorrect After Purging Pingbacks

 *  Resolved [landonelscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/landonelscott/)
 * (@landonelscott)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-incorrect-after-purging-pingbacks/)
 * I’ve noticed that after WP-Optimizing removes trackbacks and pingbacks, it appears
   the comment count is wrong.
 * Is there a way to recount comments?

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 *  [Marc Lacroix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcusig/)
 * (@marcusig)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-incorrect-after-purging-pingbacks/#post-12214523)
 * Hi,
 * Which comment count are you talking about?
 * Marc.
 *  Thread Starter [landonelscott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/landonelscott/)
 * (@landonelscott)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-incorrect-after-purging-pingbacks/#post-12214531)
 * The number of comments shown on the posts page in the admin panel as well as 
   the comment count that displays by the little comment icon of thumbnails in the
   post loop.
 * [Location In Admin](https://www.broscrubyourballs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/20191207_024626.jpg)
 * [Location in Post Loop](https://www.broscrubyourballs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/20191207_024548.jpg)
 *  [Marc Lacroix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcusig/)
 * (@marcusig)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-incorrect-after-purging-pingbacks/#post-12214564)
 * Thanks, I’ll take a look.
 * Marc.
 *  [Marc Lacroix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcusig/)
 * (@marcusig)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-incorrect-after-purging-pingbacks/#post-12243281)
 * Hi, Sorry for the delay on this.
    Right now there’s no easy way to recalculate
   the comment count for all the relevant posts.
 * I’ve added the suggestion to refresh the comment counts when removing trackbacks
   and pingbacks to our list, but it could cause issues with performance on sites
   with many of them.
 * The count should refresh when new comments are added.
 * If you really need to update the comments number on a post, you can change a 
   comment’s status and it will update.
 * Marc.

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 * Last reply from: [Marc Lacroix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcusig/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-incorrect-after-purging-pingbacks/#post-12243281)
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