Many of you have noticed that sometimes the comment count can be off. For instance, on either the main page or in single post it might say “5” but there might be one or none. It’s been a bane for me for years. The count is including all those comments in the spam cue. I’ve tried this and that and something else many times to fix it, but, no dice.
I was trying again this morning, and gave up after starting a help post at the WordPress.org forums. Since I was doing admin stuff, I decided to deactivate the threaded comments plugins and activate the WP included capability. Interestingly, when I deactivated one, Yet Another Threaded Comments Plugin, the issue immediately stopped. So the counts should show correctly now.
Unfortunately, threaded comments doesn’t seem to work. Maybe if I leave it active and update to WP 3.7.1, but, eh, no one really used them in the first place except me now and then. However, I did leave Brian’s Threaded Comments active. It’s easier than adding a bunch of code to the original code for the comments (dot) php file that came with the Violator theme. Said code controls showing the trackbacks/pingbacks separately right before the comments on a single post page.
The BTC plugin no longer actually works for threaded comments, creator stopped updating it years ago, and I think it was the WP update to 3.0 that caused it to no longer thread. Hence the use of the “Yet Another” plugin.
Furthermore, without BTC the Gigya plugin wouldn’t work correctly. Those are the buttons above the comments which allow you to login to post using various methods like Twitter, Facebook, etc. Can make commenting easier in terms of not having to re-enter info (though you should be able to double click in a box like “name” to bring up your info).
Anyhow, if anyone sees anything funky, let me know. Seems fine in Firefox and Opera for me, both logged in and logged out.
Interestingly, the page also seems to be loading just a bit faster with that plugin turned off.
