Hello, I am linking a discourse with a custom template and I need to get the number of comments to display in the post detail. Here I have the article - První auta od Xiaomi. Rychlejší umí jet hodně přes 200 km/h! and here is the corresponding discourse - První auta od Xiaomi. Rychlejší umí jet ho…

Hey there @Vladislav_Musílek , The WP Discourse plugin hooks into the filter for the standard Wordpress function get_comments_number . So you can show the number of Discourse comments on a post by echoing that in your template: echo get_comments_number();` For more on WP Discourse comments check ou…

If you’re looking to get the total of Wordpress and Discourse comments for a single post, then get_comments_number() will work (i.e. it will return the sum of both). If you’re looking to get a sum total of all comments on your site (not from a specific post), whether from Wordpress or Discourse, th…

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Vladislav_Musílek (Vladislav Musílek) December 10, 2023, 1:17pm 3

Hello,

thank you for your help, but problem is that there are comments left on the existing site and I need to get the number of existing comments, comments on Discourse and add them up. Is it possible to do this?

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How to get comments count in post?

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