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Hi All,

I recently migrated an ExpressionEngine blog to a new server and upgraded to v2.4.0 - Build: date 20120123.

After the migration, but even before the update, I noticed that the {total_comments} tag is returning 0 for all entries that have comments. Nothing at all is returned for entries without comments (which is expected).  I’ve emptied the system caches and template caches.  Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Will

This may have gone under the radar.  Does anyone have any thoughts on a solution?

Will

Hey Will,

I’m sorry {total_comments} is misbehaving for you. Lets see if we can get this sorted out.

Can you provide so more context here? Do you notice it all the time? On several templates, or one in particular? Can you share the template code here for us to review?

If this is a bug, as much information as you can possible provide would help us replicate.

Thanks!

Thanks so much, Dan.  The issue seems to be independent of the template (in other words, same issue in all templates and fresh ones created for testing).  Here is what I am using (simplified here because the actual page template is rather large).  I can PM access to the CP and full templates.  This wasn’t an issue until a recent migration to a MediaTemple dv server.

{exp:channel:entries}
{if allow_comments} 
{exp:comment:entries entry_id="{entry_id}" limit="1" dynamic="no"}<a href="http://{path="> {total_comments}</a>{/exp:comment:entries} 
{/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

The {exp:comment:entries} tag shouldn’t be nested inside the {exp:channel:entries} tag like that.

This is why you are seeing this problem here.

If you are trying to find the comments total for a certain entry then take a look at the {comment_total} Channel Entries Tag variable instead.

Best wishes,

Mark

Well, I feel foolish.  I must have just gotten lucky in the past.  Thanks so much Mark and sorry to bother!

Will

Hi Will,

I’m glad Mark was able to point that out to you. Also, the {if allow_comments} conditional is intended to display some information about the entry if comments are enabled.

Mark, it is good to see you again! Thanks for chipping in!

If either of you need anything else in the future, you know where to find us.

Cheers!