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I’m trying to number comments based on how many comments are open rather than using {comment_id}, which obviously skips over deleted one and closed ones.

Anyone any ideas? Any advice appreciated!

If you mean numbering the comments displayed on the website you could use {count} or or and ordered HTML list.

The trouble is that I’m not displaying them all at once.

I’m displaying the latest 10 from a list of 50 so I haven’t got anything to count…

When using pagination you can use {absolute_count}. I see your problem, though, since that does not count backwards.
So out-of-box there is no way, I think.

Yes I got excited when I saw absolute count until I realised it counted forwards.

Anyone know how I might reverse this?

Hiya,

Give this a go in your template :

<?php echo ({total_results} - {count} + 1); ?>

PHP will need to be turned on for the template and to Output mode but if I’m reading correctly then that should allow you to do what you need here.

Best wishes,

Mark

Mark, that works great for the number of comments on a given page but do you know any way I can include all comments regardless of pagination?

Thanks!

Hiya,

Sorry not quite sure what you meant by the above?

Do you have an example of what you mean that you could show me?

Best wishes,

Mark

What I’m working on is local and a site that does it doesn’t spring to mind.

What the snippet you’ve given me provides is perfect for the number of comments that are rendered on the page. What I’m ideally after is the same but for a count of all open comments posted, regardless of how many are rendered on a particular page.

Does that make sense?