[Plugin: Disqus Comment System] How to remove View Comments?

Doesn’t work. Now it just says ’.$comment_text.‘ on the page.

Plus when I click on “View Comments” (or whatever I may replace it with) it doesn’t take me anywhere.

if ( dsq_can_replace() ) {
		return '<span class="dsq-postid" rel="'.htmlspecialchars(dsq_identifier_for_post($post)).'">View Comments</span>';
	} else {
		return $comment_text;
	}
}

If I leave the above version as is, then below all the headlines on my index page I get the correct comment count as specified in index.php:

‘<?php comments_popup_link(‘Leave a Comment’, ‘1 Comment’, ‘% Comments’); ?>’

Clicking on it produces a URL ending in …/#disqus_thread and it leads to the Disqus comment section. So the index page works fine.

On my single post page, however, all I get is “View Comments” and clicking on it gives a URL that ends in …/#respond that leads nowhere UNLESS I put an ‘< a name=”respond”>’ anchor tag in the Disqus comments.php file.

If I apply your suggestion and modify the code to this:

‘if ( dsq_can_replace() ) {
return ‘<span class=”dsq-postid”>’ . $post->comment_count . ‘</span>’;
} else {
return $comment_text;
}
}’

I get “View Comments” under the headlines on my index page (= NO comment count), although clicking on it still leads to the comment section, and under the headline on my single post page I get a plain number, such as “2” without the word “comments”. Clicking on it still leads nowhere without the additional respond anchor tag.

The magic that ultimately worked for me was to put a check mark next to “Output JavaScript in footer” under Advanced Options in the Disqus Dashboard.