Create Page To Count Comments For Each Post In Wordpress Site

Question

I'm trying to count the number of live comments on each post. I would like to extract them on a custom page like http://example.com/count.php and have them output like this:

http://example.com/the-post-url-with-3-comments/    3
http://example.com/the-post-url-with-no-comments/   0
http://example.com/the-post-url-with-12-comments/   12

The spacing between all the posts don't matter quite as much, I just need the two columns with all my posts and number of approved comments.

I have come close to doing this with this post and using echo get_comment_count( 149 ); but it only uses one post at a time. I would like to extract all the posts.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

This is pretty easy to do. Put this code in your functions.php file.

The logic is pretty straightforward.

• Get all posts with get_posts().
• Iterate over all post, extract comments count and permalink of current post and
• Print out the results.

.

add_action( 'init', 'get_comments_count' ); // Hook to init, elsewhere or use directly in your code
function get_comments_count() {

  $all_posts = get_posts( array( 'numberposts' => -1 ) );

  foreach( $all_posts as $current_post ){

    $comments_count = get_comment_count( $current_post->ID );
    $permalink = get_permalink( $current_post->ID );

    printf( '<a href="%s">%s</a> - %s<br>', $permalink, $permalink, $comments_count['total_comments'] );

  }
}

Answer 2

Try below code. It will display comment count of each post in post loop. It also provide link to comments.

<a href="<?php comments_link(); ?>"><?php comments_number('0 Comment', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?>
</a>