Hello Support,

first: i really love your theme. Use it since today and i am very delighted by the functionaliy and design. Thanks for the great work.

My question: how can i show the ammount of comments in the header of a single post? There are many (like Author, Date, Categories) meta fields to select but not the amount of comments of the post.

Any hint would be nice.

A added an example post which has 9 comments.

Kind regards

Andre

Thanks for your hint Joanna! Which file would be the right one to add the function to?

Kind regards 

Andre 

Thank you.

I would override the standard WordPress file an add the php there. My question is: which file is the correct to modify for adding the comments on a single post?

Hello Joanna,

sorry, I tried but failed. Can you please give me hint? It would mean a lot to me!

Andre

Hi Joanna,

I'll try my coding skills again ;)

Posting in "Ideas & New Feature Suggestions" is currently not possible. I wanted to include my topic there and still think this should be a standard in Engage, since almost any other theme offers this.

Ok. My input would be:

Please show the total amount of comments in the header of a single post (with link to the first comment down in the post) like the existing meta infos eg. author, date or categories.

:)

Thank you.

I really would LOVE this enhancement because it motivates readers to read the discussions and to participate in commenting.

I somehow made it finally ;) My complete custom function overwrite in Child theme looks like this:

/**
* Overwrite for showing the comments in the post header
* Included by Andre Eymann on 26.05.2018
*/
function engage_blog_post_title_meta() {
        
        global $post;
        $post_id = get_the_ID();
        
        echo '<ul class="blog-meta">';
            
            $post_author_id = get_post_field( 'post_author', $post_id );
            $author = get_userdata( $post_author_id );
            
            if( is_object( $author ) && engage_option( 'blog_single_meta_author' ) != false ) {
            
                echo '<li><span class="meta-label">' . engage_translate( 'by' ) . '</span> <a href="' . esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ) . '">' . $author->display_name . '</a></li>';
            
            }
            if ( engage_option( 'blog_single_meta_date' ) != false ) {
                echo '<li><span class="meta-label">' . engage_translate('on') . '</span> ';
                the_time(get_option('date_format'));
                echo '</li>';
            }
            if ( engage_option( 'blog_single_meta_cats' ) != false ) {
                if ( engage_translate('in') != '' ) {
                    echo '<li><span class="meta-label">' . engage_translate('in') . '</span> ';
                    the_category(', ');
                    echo '</li>';
                } else {
                    the_category(', ');
                }
                echo '<p>';
            }
            echo '<span class="meta-label">' . comments_number( 'Keine Kommentare bisher', '1 Kommentar', '% Kommentare' ) . '</span>';
            $num_comments = get_comments_number();
            if ($num_comments > 0) {
                echo '<span class="meta-label"><a href="#comments"> (lesen)</a></span>';
            }
            echo '</p></ul>';
    }

Where the lines I've added are these:

                echo '<p>';
            }
            echo '<span class="meta-label">' . comments_number( 'Keine Kommentare bisher', '1 Kommentar', '% Kommentare' ) . '</span>';
            $num_comments = get_comments_number();
            if ($num_comments > 0) {
                echo '<span class="meta-label"><a href="#comments"> (lesen)</a></span>';
            }
            echo '</p></ul>';
    }

The result can be seen attached.

Kind regards

Andre

Thank you ;) This issue can be closed then.