you can do this very easily with jQuery simply wrap your comment form in a div and hide, add a button or a link and on his click event show the comment form so smoothing like this: <a href=”#” ID=”Leave_a_comment”>Leave a Comment</a> <div id=”comment_form_wrapper” style=”display: none;”> <?php comments_template( ”, true ); ?> </div> <script type=”text/javascript”> … Read more
Use get_comments_link(), it retrieve the link without echoing it. This is the function that is used by comments_link(). See also: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comments_link
When links are broken into pages (via the settings in WordPress) and the link to bring a user to the comments is clicked it doesn’t just scroll users down the page, it brings them to a separate page that is created. Yes; this is standard WordPress functionality. Paginating comments results in paginated posts, with an … Read more
You can copy this code into a plugin and when activated will convert all comments into posts, and delete the comments (so you will not have duplicates) You can also limit what kind of comments will be converted the posts using the parameters for get_comments ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_comments ) register_activation_hook( __FILE__, ‘wpse_29474_convert_to_posts’ ); function wpse_29474_convert_to_posts(){ $comments … Read more
I would rarely use ‘echo’ in WordPress template themes because it can cause output to appear before the loops are even executed (aka, at the top of the page). In this instance, I used the get_comments function within a function that hooked onto the content output: add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘includePosts’, 1); Within the function includePosts, I have … Read more
I’ve figured out the solution to my problems. Here’s what I did… Note: This is considering the posts, thus comments, are under the ‘Article‘ post-type, which thus create the permalink such as this: site.com/article/post-name/#comments. Adjustments should be made for other uses. To fix problem #1 & #3: if ( !is_admin() ) add_filter(‘get_comment_link’, ‘my_comment_post_redirect’); function my_comment_post_redirect($location){ … Read more
There doesn’t seem to be a hook/filter available to control comments displayed in the widget. You might have to create new dashboard widget for this as new plugin or as part of themes function.php
If you want to remove it, then find the part of your template file (probably index.php or loop.php) which refers to a comment-template and remove it, and also disable commenting in WordPress-settings (to disable use of comments.php from other pages). If you want to style it, look for comment_form() or a similar function in functions.php … Read more
The way you’re doing this, you’re going to get the raw SQL date that’s stored in the wp_comments table. You can still use the convenience functions like comment_date with get_comments. In this case, we’ll use get_comment_date. The first argument is the date format — if you leave it blank, WP will use whatever date format … Read more
the comments_popup_link() function will only work when used within the_loop; a ‘foreach’ loop using post Ids is not the same. you could try to build your own link, based on this function: get_comments_number( $id ).