Title: Feature request: Comment count on posts
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Feature request: Comment count on posts

 *  Resolved [violacase](https://wordpress.org/support/users/violacase/)
 * (@violacase)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-comment-count-on-posts/)
 * It would be nice if comment count on posts will only be displayed if the post
   has the ability to comment on. Or maybe more simple: if (comment count > 0)
    
   The latter is better if you want to display counts on older but comment-stopped
   posts. Perhaps another and better way is to set a flag option in Admin?

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 *  Theme Author [Anthony Hortin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahortin/)
 * (@ahortin)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-comment-count-on-posts/#post-5633703)
 * The Comment Count is used to display how many comments are currently on a post.
   I really don’t think it should be used as an indicator to show whether the comments
   are open or closed.
 * With that said, if you want to change this functionality to work how you want
   it, simply create a child theme and override the templates.
 *  Thread Starter [violacase](https://wordpress.org/support/users/violacase/)
 * (@violacase)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-comment-count-on-posts/#post-5633710)
 * I disagree with you Anthony. If the webmaster decides not to allow comments on
   a post or whole website it has no use / really is silly to show comment counts(
   of 0) on each post.
    Sure I can change the code to get what I want. The point
   is that the Quark skeleton should be as good as possible. It isn’t now I think.
 *  Theme Author [Anthony Hortin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahortin/)
 * (@ahortin)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-comment-count-on-posts/#post-5633711)
 * That’s fine. As I said, if this is the behaviour that you want, then simply override
   the templates and change it to how you’d like it to work. I wont be changing 
   Quark to work like this. I appreciate the suggestion though.
 *  Theme Author [Anthony Hortin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahortin/)
 * (@ahortin)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-comment-count-on-posts/#post-5633713)
 * Just another thought. If you simply want to hide the comment count because you’re
   not using Comments on your site, then all you need to do is add the following
   css to your child theme:
 *     ```
       .comments-link {
          display: none;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [violacase](https://wordpress.org/support/users/violacase/)
 * (@violacase)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-comment-count-on-posts/#post-5633716)
 * That’s a way to do it and I’ll use it. Thanks for the css.
    Still I think it 
   should be part of the template code and/or admin option.

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