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Hi,
I’m having some problems displaying {total_comments}.

Here is the scenario.

I have a blog. The comments are displayed both on the frontpage with many blog items and also on the single entry page with one blog item.

However if I turn on pagination on the frontpage and click on page 2 (see code below) the {total_comments} tag displays nothing on the frontpage, but as usual is fine on the single entry page.

{exp:channel:entries channel="vikunnar" dynamic="off" limit="5" paginate="bottom"}
....
{exp:comment:entries dynamic="off" channel="vikunnar" entry_id="{entry_id}" limit="1"}{total_comments}{/exp:comment:entries}

{/exp:channel:entries}

regards,
Gylfi

Hi Gylfi,

I’m sorry for the behavior you are experiencing.

The explanation is actually outlined in the User Guide:

NOTE
The Comment Entries Tag is intended for use in one of your “single entry” pages. That is, a page that shows a single, specific channel entry. Therefore, your Comment page must be linked to from within your Channel entries using the url_title_path variable or the entry_id_path variable, so that the comments can be associated to a specific entry.

And…

IMPORTANT
The Comment Entries tag should not be nested inside of a standard {exp:channel:entries} tag.

So, 2 things there are: Comments aren’t intended to be used on a multi-entry page, like most typical home pages. And, you shouldn’t nest the tag inside of Channel Entries. In you template, it should be after {/exp:channel:entries}

Now, what do you want to do exactly? What information do you want to display on the home page and what would you like to have on the internal page?

Give me the lowdown on what you need to accomplish and I’ll come up with something to help!

Cheers,

Hi,
I just want to display the total_count of comments for each article on the home page. The home page is displaying the 5 latest blog entries and I want to show how many have commented on the home page (not the comments themselves, I only want those on this single entry page).

Gylfi

Sure thing!

Just use the {comment_total} variable inside you channel entries tag pair:

{exp:channel:entries channel="vikunnar" dynamic="off" limit="5" paginate="bottom"}
....
{comment_total}

{/exp:channel:entries}

That should do the trick!

Cheers,