Title: Desc Comments Numbers?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Desc Comments Numbers?

 *  [Krissy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krissy/)
 * (@krissy)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/desc-comments-numbers/)
 * I’ve setup my comments so that they show up in descending order. The issue I’m
   having is with the comment numbers for each comment within the entry.
 * I’m using the <?php echo $relax_comment_count; ?> tag.
 * [http://www.krissy.nu/?p=14#comments](http://www.krissy.nu/?p=14#comments)
 * If you look there, you’ll see Jenny all the way on the bottom, now even though
   she was the first to comment she’s reading as #14 (maybe changed by now).
 * Is there a way to get it so that she shows up as #1 again? This way it reads #
   14-#1 instead of #1-#14?

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 *  [Mark Jaquith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markjaquith/)
 * (@markjaquith)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/desc-comments-numbers/#post-247780)
 * Well, I’d do something like this:
 * `<?php
    /* before the comments loop */ $comment_number = count ( $comments );?
   >
 * That will load up $comment_number with the number of comments for that entry.
   Also, $comment_number is the number you want given to the first comment (technically
   the most recent comment, but the comment that is SHOWN first).
 * Now, within each comment loop iteration, you’ll want to print out this number,
   and then reduce it by one.
 * `<?php
    /* within the comment loop */ echo "This is comment number: " . $comment_number;/*
   now that we're done with this comment, it is time to set up the number for the
   next comment... that is... make the number one lower */ $comment_number--; //
   this decreases it by one ?>
 * Now, the next time the comment loop runs (i.e. the next comment), $comment_number
   will be one lower. So in the case that you showed with 14 comments, you first
   get 14 (number of comments) and then each comment after that in the listing will
   get a number one lower. (13, 12, 11, 10 … 3, 2, 1)
 * Sound good?
 *  Thread Starter [Krissy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krissy/)
 * (@krissy)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/desc-comments-numbers/#post-247784)
 * That worked great, thank you so much!

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 * Last reply from: [Krissy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krissy/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/desc-comments-numbers/#post-247784)
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