“Number of Comments” in XML feeds in Wordpress
by peterb
I got this working today in the Atom, RDF, and RSS 2.0 feeds. It’s not working in the RSS 1 feed, but WordPress’s RSS 1 feed sucks anyway, and if you’re using that feed you should change to a different one.
Using the RDF feed as an example, all I did was change this line:
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_content('’, 0, ‘’) ?>]]></content:encoded>
to this:
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<?php the_content('’, 0, ‘’) ?><p><?php comments_popup_link(’Comment now »’,
‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’, ‘commentslink’);
?></p>]]></content:encoded>
Hope that helps those of you who were looking to do something similar.
Wait — but where does one find this piece of code? I’ve looked through all the files in my wordpress theme editor, and can’t find anything that says ….
It’s not in the theme editor, regrettably. You need to log in to the shell account wherever your wordpress installation is hosted and edit the files with names like “wp-atom.php” “wp-rss.php” “wp-rss2.php” and “wp-rdf.php”
Thanks dude — I think I’ve got it working — Yay! You’re the sweetest
Ok — I sort of have it working, but weirdly. I now have this at the bottom of each post:
Comment now �
* Comments
If the post has comments, I get this:
1 Comment �
* Comments
I’m wondering if the prob was b/c I changed the code on 2 different files. Was I only supposed to change it in 1?
My guess is that when you copied/pasted from the text flow above, you picked up a carriage return, which is somehow confusing PHP.