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Function Reference/comments number

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Description

Displays the total number of comments, Trackbacks, and Pingbacks for the current post. This tag must be within The Loop.

Use get_comments_number() to retrieve the value.

Usage

 <?php comments_number( $zero, $one, $more ); ?> 

Parameters

$zero
(string) (optional) Text to display when there are no comments.
Default: 'No Comments'
$one
(string) (optional) Text to display when there is one comment.
Default: '1 Comment'
$more
(string) (optional) Text to display when there is more than one comment. % is replaced by the number of comments, so '% so far' is displayed as "5 so far" when there are five comments.
Default: '% Comments'

Examples

Text Response to Number of Comments

Displays text based upon number of comments: Comment count zero - no responses; comment count one - one response; more than one comment (total 42) displays 42 responses. 

<p>
  This post currently has
  <?php comments_number( 'no responses', 'one response', '% responses' ); ?>.
</p>

Notes

Change Log

Since: 0.71

Source File

comments_number() is located in wp-includes/comment-template.php

Related

cancel_comment_reply_link(), comment_author(), comment_author_email(), comment_author_email_link(), comment_author_IP(), comment_author_link(), comment_author_rss(), comment_author_url(), comment_author_url_link(), comment_class(), comment_date(), comment_excerpt(), comment_form_title(), comment_form(), comment_ID(), comment_id_fields(), comment_reply_link(), comment_text(), comment_text_rss(), comment_time(), comment_type(), comments_link, comments_number(), comments_open(), comments_popup_link(), comments_popup_script(), comments_rss_link(), get_avatar(), next_comments_link(), paginate_comments_links(), permalink_comments_rss(), previous_comments_link(), wp_list_comments()

See also index of Function Reference and index of Template Tags.
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