Comment count not working

  • Resolved aquagrrl

    (@aquagrrl)


    16 years, 5 months ago

    I can’t get comment counts to work. I tried comments_popup_link and comments_number but they always show no comments. This is on a page using query_posts. I saw the http://wordpress.org/support/topic/162559 is_page fix but it does not work. I thought it might be query_posts but I saw several examples using comments_popup_link so I assume that it should work. Here is my code in question:

    <div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
<?php $temp_query = $wp_query; ?>
<?php query_posts($query_string.'showposts=200&orderby=date&order=DESC&cat=-16'); ?>
<ul id="ArticleList">
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  <li class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
  	 <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
  	 <?php

global $post;
$default_size = 'medium';

$attachments = get_children( array('post_parent' => $post->ID, 'post_status' => 'inherit', 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' => 'image', 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'menu_order ID', 'numberposts' => 1) );
if($attachments) :
	foreach($attachments as $id => $attachment) :
		$img = wp_get_attachment_image_src($id, $default_size);
	endforeach;
else :
	$img=null;
endif;
?>

	<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><img src="<?php echo ($img[0]);?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>

    <small>By <a href="mailto:<?php the_author_email();?>"><?php the_author_firstname(); ?> <?php the_author_lastname(); ?></a></small>
     | <small>Date posted: <?php the_date(); ?></small><br />
     <span class="NumComments"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>#comments"><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></a> </span>
     <ol class="commentlist">
<?php wp_list_comments(); ?>
</ol>

	<p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
</li>

      <?php endwhile; ?>
 </ul>
	</div>
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  • Thread Starter aquagrrl

    (@aquagrrl)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    I’ve discovered what the problem is, but I don’t know how to fix it. The code I’m using to pull the first image from each post causes the comment count to break. I don’t know what in it is doing that, or if there is an alternate to pull the first image.
    Here is the code that is breaking things:

    <?php

global $post;
$default_size = 'medium';

$attachments = get_children( array('post_parent' => $post->ID, 'post_status' => 'inherit', 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' => 'image', 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'menu_order ID', 'numberposts' => 1) );
if($attachments) :
	foreach($attachments as $id => $attachment) :
		$img = wp_get_attachment_image_src($id, $default_size);
	endforeach;
else :
	$img=null;
endif;

?>

    Thread Starter aquagrrl

    (@aquagrrl)

    16 years, 5 months ago

    Figured out a solution, if anyone runs into this in the future. changed the method in which I get images to:

    $images = get_children( array('post_parent' => $post->ID, 'post_status' => 'inherit', 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' => 'image', 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'menu_order ID', 'numberposts' => 1) );
foreach ( $images as $attachment_id => $attachment ) :
		$img = wp_get_attachment_image_src($attachment_id, 'medium');
	endforeach;

    I don’t know why this is better, but it doesn’t screw up the comment count. Here is the whole thing:

    <div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">
<?php $temp_query = $wp_query; ?>
<?php query_posts('showposts=200&orderby=date&order=DESC&cat=-16'); ?>
<ul id="ArticleList">
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  <li class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
  	 <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
  	 <?php

$images = get_children( array('post_parent' => $post->ID, 'post_status' => 'inherit', 'post_type' => 'attachment', 'post_mime_type' => 'image', 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'menu_order ID', 'numberposts' => 1) );
foreach ( $images as $attachment_id => $attachment ) :
		$img = wp_get_attachment_image_src($attachment_id, 'medium');
	endforeach;

?>

	<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><img src="<?php echo ($img[0]);?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>

    <small>By <a href="mailto:<?php the_author_email();?>"><?php the_author_firstname(); ?> <?php the_author_lastname(); ?></a></small>
     | <small>Date posted: <?php the_date(); ?></small><br />
     <span class="NumComments"> <?php comments_popup_link('<span class="CommentWord">No Comments</a>', '<span class="CommentNumber">1</span> <span class="CommentWord">Comment</a>', '<span class="CommentNumber">%</span> <span class="CommentWord">Comments</a>'); ?>
 </span>

	<p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
</li>

      <?php endwhile; ?>
 </ul>
	</div>

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