Title: Reverse comment numbering
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Reverse comment numbering

 *  [Hegarty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hegarty/)
 * (@hegarty)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-comment-numbering/)
 * Hello,
 * in order to give every comment a number, my functions.php contains the following
   code:
 *     ```
       <?php global $comment_num;
       if(isset($comment_num)) {
       $comment_num++;
       } else { $comment_num = 1; }
       ?>
       ```
   
 * How am I able to modify this code in order to reverse the numbering? The very
   last comment at the bottom of the page should become “Comment no.1”.
 * Thanks in advance for your help!

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 *  Thread Starter [Hegarty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hegarty/)
 * (@hegarty)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reverse-comment-numbering/#post-1899957)
 * Got the solution:
 *     ```
       <?php global $comment_num;
       if(isset($comment_num)) {
       $comment_num--;
       } else { global $post; $comment_num = $post->comment_count; }
       ?>
       ```
   

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