Title: Hyperlink Comment count
Last modified: December 3, 2020

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# Hyperlink Comment count

 *  Resolved [ourintentionalfarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ourintentionalfarm/)
 * (@ourintentionalfarm)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-comment-count/)
 * I updated my theme to display the number of comments next to the date of each
   post using the following code: echo ‘ – ‘, get_comments_number(), ‘ comments ‘;
 * In the functions.php
 * How do I make this hyperlinked so it takes you directly to the comments when 
   clicked? Right now it doesn’t link at all.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fhyperlink-comment-count%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-comment-count/#post-13742295)
 * It may be different in your theme, but in twentytwentyone, comments are in a 
   div with the ID “comments”. So
 * `echo ‘ – ‘, <a href="#comments">get_comments_number(), ‘ comments ‘, '</a>';`
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-comment-count/#post-13749005)
 * Hi Intentional Farm,
    Steven’s suggestion will work on single post pages (once
   the syntax errors are corrected (`‘` vs. `'`)). For the comment links on your
   home page the href value needs to include the current post’s permalink. So: `
   echo ' – <a href="', esc_url( get_permalink()), '#comments">', get_comments_number(),'
   comments</a>';`
 *  Thread Starter [ourintentionalfarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ourintentionalfarm/)
 * (@ourintentionalfarm)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-comment-count/#post-13750158)
 * This community rocks! Thanks so much for you speedy suggestions. bcworkz, the
   home page code worked
 * Thanks Steven for the single post info too.
 * Appreciate you both.

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 * Last reply from: [ourintentionalfarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ourintentionalfarm/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-comment-count/#post-13750158)
 * Status: resolved

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