[Plugin: disqus] Comment count always shows 0

Hi,
I had a similar problem, and just fixed it by using the code below:

function dsq_comments_text($comment_text) {
global $post;

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

This works ok, i.e. displays the number of counts. However, I am getting 0 comments, event though I have several comments. I haven’t found a fix to this yet. But it seems it will at least get you through your problem.

Chucks’ approach works, but it has the disadvantage that the comments count format is then hardcoded ie. before you could use

comments_number('No Comments','1 Comment', '% Comments')

Now it is simply “0”,”1″,”2″, whatever arguments you give.

Hello Chucks

Hi,
I had a similar problem, and just fixed it by using the code below:

mind if I ask where exactly did you use this code?
I’m just not clear.
did you use it in “disqus.php”

This works ok, i.e. displays the number of counts. However, I am getting 0 comments, event though I have several comments. I haven’t found a fix to this yet. But it seems it will at least get you through your problem.

I’m also having the same “0 comments” issue and was wondering if you were able to find a solution.

I’m also having this problem

I’m using the Magzimus theme so, like ChimpanzeeUK, every time the plugin is updated I edit disqus.php according to the instructions here: https://blogtechguy.com/1560/fixing-view-comments-in-disqus-plugin/. Otherwise the “View Comments” link is too large for the theme.

Any help would be appreciated.

I had the same problem. There seems to be some conflict with disqus andthe function that retrieves the number of comments.

However, you can access the global $post variable. When I checked the value, it showed the correct comment count. So, try using that comment count and bypassing any fetcher functions.

<?php echo $post->comment_count?>
<?php echo ($post->comment_count==1?' comment':' comments');?>

Hope this helps.

Thanks joshuahong100! I got it to work like this:

in disqus.php change the following:

return '<span class="dsq-postid" rel="'.htmlspecialchars(dsq_identifier_for_post($post)).'">View Comments</span>';

to:

return '<span class="dsq-postid" rel="'.htmlspecialchars(dsq_identifier_for_post($post)).'">'.$post->comment_count.'</span>';

I have used this

function dsq_comments_text($comment_text) {
global $post;

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

but it doesn’t work on my site Harv Eker. I want that the comments counts update themselves responding to the current number of comments.