Show count comments under the title

First, you should look at creating a child theme. That way, any modifications you make won’t be removed by a WordPress update. Next, edit wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/template-parts/post/content.php and look for the following code: if ( is_single() ) { the_title( ‘<h1 class=”entry-title”>’, ‘</h1>’ ); } elseif ( is_front_page() && is_home() ) { the_title( ‘<h3 class=”entry-title”><a href=”‘ . esc_url( … Read more

Incude comments in search

Whether you put custom code in your theme’s functions.php or in a plugin, you’re still using custom code. So I’m going to ignore your “without a plugin” requirement and instead suggest these two plugins: Search Everything Relevanssi There is absolutely no reason to use custom functionality in functions.php rather than a plugin. When you’re asking … Read more

comments are going to spam

You should not add http:// or wwww. to your Comment Moderation or Blacklist boxes. This will send all comments to a pending status, or WP removes them. If you want stuff to be blacklisted that contains a certain url, add a fully qualified domain name.

Comments on pages not appearing, even though I enabled them

As @SaurabhShukla mentioned in one of the comments, the problem was probably the theme. I use Virtue. Its great and got tons of options, and in one of them, under misc settings (a place which is totally unlooked-for), sits an option/out button. Hope this will help someone else in the future. Thank you all for … Read more

Reply to a specific comment?

Yes, it is possible.You can integrate a custom template for comment detail page where users will start thread on particular comment. You can create a URL using add_rewrite_rule. also add query vars for URL. Here you can get that query var and use template_redirect hook to to include a template by apply condition for that … Read more