Title: [Plugin: Posts By Tag] posts by tag affects comment count
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Posts By Tag] posts by tag affects comment count

 *  Resolved [aesthetist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aesthetist/)
 * (@aesthetist)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-posts-by-tag-posts-by-tag-affects-comment-count/)
 * FYI – when using the post-by-tag shortcode in a post with comments, the comments_number
   function reports the wrong comment count
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-by-tag/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-by-tag/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Sudar Muthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sudar/)
 * (@sudar)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-posts-by-tag-posts-by-tag-affects-comment-count/#post-2517375)
 * That’s really strange. Let me have a look at it.
 * Is it happening consistently for you?
 *  Thread Starter [aesthetist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aesthetist/)
 * (@aesthetist)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-posts-by-tag-posts-by-tag-affects-comment-count/#post-2517378)
 * yes, every post. as soon as i remove the shortcode the comment count returns 
   to its correct number. thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Sudar Muthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sudar/)
 * (@sudar)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-posts-by-tag-posts-by-tag-affects-comment-count/#post-2517405)
 * I tried to replicate it on my dev server but couldn’t 🙁
 * Can you give me additional information like whether it is happens only in the
   posts or both in posts as well as pages. Also let me know if you are using any
   Plugin which deals with comment count etc.
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Sudar Muthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sudar/)
 * (@sudar)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-posts-by-tag-posts-by-tag-affects-comment-count/#post-2517406)
 * Also let me know if the comment count is displayed before or after the post content
 *  Plugin Author [Sudar Muthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sudar/)
 * (@sudar)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-posts-by-tag-posts-by-tag-affects-comment-count/#post-2517444)
 * I found a bug and fixed it in v2.7.2 of the Plugin.
 * Update the Plugin and the comment should be posted on the current post.

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 * Last reply from: [Sudar Muthu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sudar/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-posts-by-tag-posts-by-tag-affects-comment-count/#post-2517444)
 * Status: resolved