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My question never got answered so I am opening a new thread.  The main question here is why would {total_comments} only return the total number of comments when the user is logged in?  I have ran into this issue because my statistics won’t show correctly unless the user is logged in.

Thanks for any help,
Jason

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Sorry about that Jason.

Your code was chopped off in the other thread, so how are you using this?  Within the exp:comment:entries tag pair, or the stats module?

Also, what version/build are you running?  both values can be found in the footer of the CP.

-greg

I am currently running 1.6.6 and just was using it within a template.  For instance, it would display like the default EE theme at the bottom - except I don’t think it has the total comment count there.  However, the {total_comments} tag is a global tag so therefore should work without being nested in anything else - unless I grabbed the wrong one.

But again unless I am logged in it will show 0 comments but when logged in it will show the correct amount.  Unfortunately I am doing this on a laptop so I don’t have a live version yet to show what I am talking about.

This is what I am using Docs

In the docs page you linked to, it says:  “The total number of comments posted by the currently logged-in user.”  So if you are logged out, it’s not going to show anything.

If you are wanting to show the total number of comments that have been made on the site, like in the footer of the default templates, look at the {total_comments} variable in the stats module