Title: Comment Count Issues
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comment Count Issues

 *  [mcahill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcahill/)
 * (@mcahill)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-issues/)
 * My only real issue I’m having with WordPress 2.0 is the comment count function.
   For some reason whenever WordPress tries to count how many comments a post has(
   even in the admin interface), it returns nothing unless I (as an admin) posts
   a comment afterwards. If I post, the count returns to the correct state.
 * Is there an obvious reason for this I’m not missing?

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 *  [D’Arcy Norman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dnorman/)
 * (@dnorman)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-issues/#post-299251)
 * I’m seeing this too, in WP 2.0 RC3
 *  [tfarrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tfarrow/)
 * (@tfarrow)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-issues/#post-299317)
 * I’m seeing this too, with the difference that even when logged in as administrator
   when leaving a comment, the count remains at zero.
 *  Thread Starter [mcahill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcahill/)
 * (@mcahill)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-issues/#post-299321)
 * It appears that my issue was related to an old comment spam plugin Spam Karma.
   After removing it everything “appears” to work well.
 * Do either of you have a plugin similar to this installed?
 *  [schestowitz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schestowitz/)
 * (@schestowitz)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-issues/#post-299328)
 * 2 other people have reported similar issues pertaining to comment count. This
   could either be due to caching or import, I suspect.
 *  [tfarrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tfarrow/)
 * (@tfarrow)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-issues/#post-299341)
 * I too deactivated the SpamKarma plugin, and this seems to have resolved the problem.
 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-issues/#post-299342)
 * See [this post](http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2005-December/003592.html)
   to the hackers mailing list for a little more information.
 *  [halsnalle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halsnalle/)
 * (@halsnalle)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-issues/#post-299464)
 * I have the same problem, but I don’t use the Spam Karma plugin. I just deleted
   a some 1,000 spam trackbacks that somehow came along when I migrated from Nucleus.
   Seems that the comment count still counts them in, though. Can I reset the comment
   count manually?
 *  [ivar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivar/)
 * (@ivar)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-issues/#post-299465)
 * I also have a comment count problem. Although a posts have comments, it displays“
   no comments”. This only occur on (some) new posts (after the WP 2.0 upgrade).
   I dont use Spam Karma.
 * Anyone know what to do?
 * I have tried the “sk2-wp2compatibility” plugin. No good for my problem.
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-issues/#post-299466)
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/53947#post-295236](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/53947#post-295236)
 * See the suggestion. That help?
 *  [charanis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charanis/)
 * (@charanis)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-issues/#post-299483)
 * Had the same problem – Comments weren’t counting. There might be several posted
   comments and it would show them but say at the top “no responses for…” And olderposts
   with new comments showed the old count.
 * I did the procedure – turned off Spam Karma and then went in and edited the comments
   of at least one from each post. It brought the count back.
 * I need Spam Karma – it cought 55 spam comments this week.
 * Image ones are hard to install, what should I do? 0 I’ll check the Spam Karma
   site. I don’t know If I can go edit the database..
 *  [charanis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charanis/)
 * (@charanis)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-issues/#post-299484)
 * Thank’s Skippy, that did the trick. I just put in the SK@ Comments plugin and
   it worked. Anyone try upgrading to the latest SK@ beta release?

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