Title: Comment count under each post
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Comment count under each post

 *  Resolved [IrvingO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingo/)
 * (@irvingo)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/)
 * Hi;
 * I’d like to have a comment count showing under each individual post. How would
   I do that?

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762135)
 * You add a call to the function [comments_number](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comments_number)
   to your template.
 *  Thread Starter [IrvingO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingo/)
 * (@irvingo)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762157)
 * Thank you, I will try to figure that out.
 *  Thread Starter [IrvingO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingo/)
 * (@irvingo)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762160)
 * tried it. but there was no change. Take a look at my coding please. I did this
   in the comments.php file. Perhaps I put it in the wrong spot.
 * Here’s my coding [http://wordpress.pastebin.com/K32UgdBs](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/K32UgdBs)
 *  Thread Starter [IrvingO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingo/)
 * (@irvingo)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762161)
 * Perhaps I’m not explaining myself correctly. I would like the count to show somewhere
   next to the “LEAVE A COMMENT” link. You should be able to see the comment count
   w/out having to click into the post.
 * Thanks
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762162)
 * It needs to go in the template that is used to display the posts – probably index.
   php, depending on your theme.
 *  Thread Starter [IrvingO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingo/)
 * (@irvingo)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762163)
 * then i would add it within this section? is that correct?
 * [http://wordpress.pastebin.com/Af44tN38](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/Af44tN38)
 *  Thread Starter [IrvingO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingo/)
 * (@irvingo)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762165)
 * OK it worked pretty well,not perfectly, OK, i wanted to attach a screen shot 
   but couldn’t figure out how to do it.
    ” Link To Full Post Tweet Article Tweet
   Article Leave A Comment” Then I have a dividing line & then this line underneath
   it.
 * “This post currently has one response.”
 * I would like to get just a #1 or 1 – response somewhere next to the words “LEAVE
   A COMMENT”
 * Thanks for your help
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762167)
 * Really hard to tell without seeing more of the code, but I would try it like 
   this:
 *     ```
       A Comment"); ?></a></p>
       <p>This post currently has
       <?php comments_number('no responses','one response','% responses'); ?>.</p>
       ```
   
 * BTW, what did you get when you put the code in comments.php? Did you see the ‘
   This post currently has’ text?
 *  Thread Starter [IrvingO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingo/)
 * (@irvingo)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762169)
 * OK I will try what you said now. And yes I am getting TEXT totally spelling it
   out “THIS POST HAS ONE RESPONSE” First off, I would like to change the word response
   to comment, can I do that ?
    Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [IrvingO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingo/)
 * (@irvingo)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762170)
 * oops that didn’t work well at all. Now I’m getting coding that people can see.
   Here’s my site can you possibly take a look. [http://orgelphotography.com/index2.php/](http://orgelphotography.com/index2.php/)
 * Thanks loads
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762171)
 * Change the word ‘response’ to ‘comment’ in the call to comments_number:
 * `<?php comments_number('no comments','one comment','% comments'); ?>`
 *  Thread Starter [IrvingO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingo/)
 * (@irvingo)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762172)
 * still getting that coding showing though
 *  Thread Starter [IrvingO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingo/)
 * (@irvingo)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762173)
 * A Comment”); ?></p> I removed that line from my coding, but i’m not liking the
   spot it’s hitting. how can i change that?
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762174)
 * > A Comment”); ?></p>
 * That code was already in the file!! I included it there to show you to insert
   the new code AFTER that. However, you apparently wanted it before the ‘Leave 
   A Comment’, not after.
 * You can add some space in front of the text with non-breaking spaces, like this:
 * `<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; This post currently has`
 *  Thread Starter [IrvingO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingo/)
 * (@irvingo)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-count-under-each-post/#post-1762176)
 * Thank you. you were a major help.
    I actually wanted to really customize my comments
   so that you can see it as a neat little dropdown underneath. with a hide and 
   unhide button. Somebody else on here actually gave me the coding to get it to
   show but I didn’t care for the way it looked. Think you’d be able to walk me 
   through something like that?
 * Thanks

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