How to get comments count in post?

[angus (Angus McLeod)]

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 out

Configure WP Discourse to display comments from Discourse

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