SimplePress: adjust comment count in the theme

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SimplePress: adjust comment count in the theme

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Started 1 year ago by Barandum
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Barandum
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When using the SimplePress Forum plugin you have the option to let post comments be posts in the forum as well (and vice versa). That is great, especially on big communtiy sites, like ours.

The comment count of wordpress only counts the true blog comments and not the simplepress comments.

In the SimplePress Wiki I found this function:

sf_comments_number($no_comment="0 Comments", $one_comment="1 Comment", $many_comment="% Comments", $blogcomments)

Replaces the WP Template Tag: comments_number()

Supplies Count of topic posts and can optionally include the standard blog comments in the total

parameters:

$no_comment Used for zero comments text

$one_comment Used for one comment text

$many_comment Used for multiple comments text

$blogcomments Include Standard Blog Comments (true or false)

Can this code be put into the function.php in the style sheet to replace the wp comment count? That would be great! Otherwise all files (index, single, etc.) must be adjusted individually.

Posted 1 year ago #
marmot
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Partial answer...

In the admin panel of SPF you have an option to display in the WordPress post the number of posts that have been made in the related thread : Components > Blog Linking.

Posted 1 year ago #
Barandum
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Not really the solution what i am looking for. I would like to overwrite via function (child theme) the wp comment count function with the one above.

Posted 1 year ago #
vfxdude
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you can't override functions like that, but if a filter is applied to it you can change the output.

Posted 1 year ago #
Barandum
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so it is not possible to write a function to replace wp_commentnumber with the function above?

Posted 1 year ago #
vfxdude
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if you look in the comments.php file (in library/functions) you will see a comment_count function at the bottom, this one is altering the output of the comment count. You can change this one or add a similar one in the child theme to add simplepress comments to the number.

Posted 1 year ago #
Barandum
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Hi vfdude,

I am struggling getting the
sf_comments_number('You have 0 Comments', 'You have 1 Comment', 'You have % Comments', true);

into the libary/functions/comments.php

add_filter('get_comments_number', 'comment_count', 0); function comment_count( $count ) { global $id; $get_comments= get_comments('post_id=' . $id . '&status=approve'); $comments_by_type = &separate_comments($get_comments); return count($comments_by_type['comment']); }

Any help on this would be highly appreciated. I replace the post comments with the simplepress post function. Like this every new post comment will be converted into a forum post and the initial blog comment will be deleted and replaced with the post. The issue is, that the wp-comment count function does not take the forum post as a comment. So I have to replace the default function with the one mentioned above.

Posted 1 year ago #
vfxdude
admin

sf_comments_number seems not to return the comments number, but a formatted string. Look into the code of this function to see how they retrieve the comment number (used to output the % Comments).

Posted 1 year ago #
Barandum
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hmmm... but when we change the values in the () to only numbers, the the output should be fine?

How should this then be embedded in your function of the theme?

Posted 1 year ago #
vfxdude
admin

you need the value returned and not echoed. If you want to replace the wp value with this one then it's something like this:

add_filter('get_comments_number', 'comment_count', 0); function comment_count( $count ) { return get_sf_comments_number(); }

but you have to find that SF function...

Posted 1 year ago #
vfxdude
admin

i just took a quick look at the sf_comments_number function, and you can copy the whole function, rename it and modify it to return the comment number, like this:

add_filter('get_comments_number', 'my_sf_comments_number', 0); my_sf_comments_number () { .... return $total; }

Then comment out the add_filter('get_comments_number', 'comment_count', 0); line.

Posted 1 year ago #
Barandum
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So I have to change that in the forum function php or in the theme function php?

the code would look then like this:

//add_filter('get_comments_number', 'my_sf_comments_number', 0); my_sf_comments_number () { .... return $total; }

Posted 1 year ago #
vfxdude
admin

you can copy the function into your child theme functions.php and modify it. Add the comments before the filter in comments.php and not like above (you need the filter for your custom function to change the comment number).

Posted 1 year ago #
Barandum
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ok, so I would put this code into the functions.php in my child theme:

add_filter('get_comments_number', 'my_sf_comments_number', 0); my_sf_comments_number () { .... return $total; }

And would comment out the filter in your libary/functions/comments.php.

Right?

From a dev of simplepress I also got this function:

<?php sf_linked_topic_post_count(); ?> Which outputs the post count.

Posted 1 year ago #
vfxdude
admin

right, but you need to copy the whole sf_comments_number function and modify it (that is just a dummy example).

yes, the sf_linked_topic_post_count() function is used in the sf_comments_number function. This number is added to the total comments in the blog. If you want you probably can use this one instead and modify the function in comments.php instead.

Posted 1 year ago #
Barandum
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great, thank you!

So I would modify it like this:

sf_comments_number('0', '1', '%', true);

Does this then change the comment counting for the entire theme, i.e. is also the comment bubble and meta tags adjusted as seen on the frontpage?

sorry to bother you on this but the comment integration is critical to the success of our page and before we launch it, I would like to get it right the first time.

Posted 1 year ago #
vfxdude
admin
that is the function call, I'm talking about the function implementation in the simplepress plugin directory. It's located in the sf-template-tags-comments.php file in simple-forum\template-tags.

a simpler way for you, can be to catch the output and return it, like this:
```
add_filter('get_comments_number', 'my_comment_count', 0);
function my_comment_count( $count ) {
  ob_start();
  sf_comments_number('0', '1', '%', true);
  $numcomments = ob_get_contents();
  ob_end_clean();
  return $numcomments;
}
```
I have spent too much time on this now...
Posted 1 year ago #
Barandum
Member

Ok thx and sorry to bother you on this. appreciate your input. will take it from here!

Posted 1 year ago #
Barandum
Member

just an info for all those who use SPF with bigfeature. The function above generates a memory leak:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 94371840 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 87 bytes) in /home/barandum/ps3community.ch/wp-includes/capabilities.php

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