Title: Comment Number
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comment Number

 *  [neczy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neczy/)
 * (@neczy)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-number-2/)
 * Hello Everyone,
 * I’m looking for a plugin that will give mimic an ordered list, so I can have 
   my comments numbered (1, 2, 3 etc). I want to use divs instead of the ordered
   list, and I can’t find anything in the wiki that will accomodate this. Does anyone
   have any suggestions, etc?

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 *  [techwench](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techwench/)
 * (@techwench)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-number-2/#post-240851)
 * No need for a plugin. Edit your comments.php and add this line at the top (just
   below `return; endif;`)
 * `$commentcount=1;`
 * Then in your comments list, where you want to display the number, just add:
 * `<?php echo $commentcount++; ?>`
 *  Thread Starter [neczy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neczy/)
 * (@neczy)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-number-2/#post-240872)
 * Sweet, that did the trick, thanks.
 *  [viper007bond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viper007bond/)
 * (@viper007bond)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-number-2/#post-240880)
 * You could have also done:
 * `<ol>
    <li>A comment</li> <li>Another comment</li> <li>Yet another comment</li
   > </ol>
 * Which produces:
    1. A comment
    2. Another comment
    3. Yet another comment
 * [edit] Whoops, missed how you wanted to do div’s instead of a ordered list. However,
   you coulda still done this and controlled the look of your li’s instead of using
   div’s.
 * Example: [ click here](http://www.viper007bond.com/archives/2005/07/21/yet-another-version-of-my-blog/)
 * My comments are encased in li’s, not div’s. [/edit]
 *  [Kassad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kassad/)
 * (@kassad)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-number-2/#post-240897)
 * I did not succeed to implement this solution.
    Though, I am not a programmer.
   Digging through the forum, I found this thread with a more simple solution that
   worked for me.
 * `.commentlist li {
    margin: 15px 0 3px; padding: 5px 10px 3px; <strong>list-style:
   decimal;</strong> }
 * 
 *  [Kassad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kassad/)
 * (@kassad)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-number-2/#post-240898)
 * Mmm….
 * **list-style: decimal;**

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-number-2/#post-240898)
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