Zero padding numeric comment numbers

You should be able to use CSS to do that. Find the <ol> wrapper in your comments.php template and change it to <ol style="list-style-type:decimal-leading-zero;">

See how that works out for you.

I’m actually using list-style-type: none; to to drop numerals and bullet points across the board. In addition I’d like to be able to pull data before and after without having to resort to further CSS headaches while styling the padded zero portion different from the actual number. First I’d just like to get those leading zeros in there via PHP with a plugin if at all possible.

Ideas anyone? Nathan?

Vlog,
I stumbled upon this post while trying to find the same solution.
Not sure if you found your answer but I was able to come up with a solution that worked for me. I was looking to pad the comment number, so that it was always 3 digits, in a link that was being generated by the function

comments_popup_link('000', '001', '%');

What I did was rather than use this function I dissected how it was getting all it’s bits and replaced the instance of the function call with the following code.

echo '<a href="'.get_permalink().'#comments" title="Comment on '.get_the_title().'">';
printf ("%03d", get_comments_number());
echo '</a>';

It’s not exactly the most elegant thing but it does what I want it to. Hope that’s helpful.

J.

jthomasc – this worked perfectly.

thank you.

jthomasc,

one problem – this code doesn’t give you the option to do something like this:

comments_popup_link('add', '1', '%');

While where the % gets the leading zeros but ‘add’ is still an option for no comments. Any way to accomplish this?