Displaying comment number for each comment in 2.7

Anyone?

I am having the same trouble. I can’t for the life of me figure it out. I could do it in the earlier versions. Any one out there have any ideas?

I am trying to figure this out for over two weeks now. Still nothing.

Is it even possible with WP 2.7?

Thank you, twitter (mollstam)! This seems to do the trick. Add this in your start_el function in comment_template.php:

# Comment counter
global $comment_num;
if(isset($comment_num)) {
    $comment_num++;
} else { $comment_num = 1; }

You could also add a zero before any single digit number:

# Add 0 if less than 10
if ($comment_num < 10) $comment_num = "0".$comment_num;

Finally print the number as you prefer, for example:

<?php echo $comment_num ?>

Hi pannpann,

Thank you, I’ve just tried it.

It works, but not entirely:

If you have more than one comment page, the numbering starts on every page with “1” again.

Any fix to this, or maybe I just inserted the code wrong (I have a completely different template).

Eddie

What you have said works fine, but as Dantes mentioned there is a problem if you have more than one page. Any solutions found?

Thanks, I didn’t even notice that. I came up with a fix — it’s a bit rough, but it works great for me. Add this before the #Comment Counter:

#Get the current comment page and calculate preceeding comments
		if ( '' === $args['per_page'] && get_option('page_comments') )
			$args['per_page'] = get_option('comments_per_page');

		if ( empty($args['per_page']) ) {
			$args['per_page'] = 0;
			$args['page'] = 0;
		}

		if ( $args['per_page'] ) {
			if ( '' == $args['page'] )
				$args['page'] = get_query_var('cpage');
		}
		$ccomp = ($args['page']-1) * $args['per_page'] ;

The final calculation, including the comment counter, looks like this:

#Get the current comment page and calculate preceeding comments
		if ( '' === $args['per_page'] && get_option('page_comments') )
			$args['per_page'] = get_option('comments_per_page');

		if ( empty($args['per_page']) ) {
			$args['per_page'] = 0;
			$args['page'] = 0;
		}

		if ( $args['per_page'] ) {
			if ( '' == $args['page'] )
				$args['page'] = get_query_var('cpage');
		}
		$ccomp = ($args['page']-1) * $args['per_page'] ;

		# Comment counter
		global $comment_num;
		if(isset($comment_num)) {
		    $comment_num++;
		} else { $comment_num = 1; }

The comment compensation is stored in $ccomp, so don’t forget to add it when printing the comment number:

<?php echo $comment_num + $ccomp ?>

Hope this works for you!

@pannpann

I would like to thank you for your outstanding work.

I’ve just implemented it, this works great for me!

Good job, thank you very much.

Eddie

Thank you Dantes, I’m glad it worked!

For questions or further support on this hack, the easiest way to find me is through twitter: pannpann.

Finally, if someone is aware of a better way to do this, any tips or feedback would be terrific.

Hi folks,

I think this can get quite tricky when it comes to threaded comments, as well as if you choose to display comments in descending rather than ascending date order.

If you can bear some shameless plugin plugging, I’ve just released a plugin that can take care of all the details for you, enabling you to drop in comment numbers wherever you’d like them to appear in your comments:

Greg’s Threaded Comment Numbering

It works in conjunction with the new comment display function introduced in 2.7, so it does require some basic retro-fitting for themes still using the older comment loop. Give it a whirl and see what you think!

All the best,
Greg

Good work pannpann. I’ve been looking for a solution to this after a lot of searching. I don’t understand anything you did, but it works. ??