Comments on: Replacing “No comments” with “Leave a comment” in WordPress

By: medyum

medyum — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:13:29 +0000

I confess to be scared as hell about playing with the raw code behind my theme but I use Thesis OpenHook so there might be a way around this for us couch potato types. Thanks for jogging my memory about this, I will look into this.

By: Pdfok

Pdfok — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:35:41 +0000

I completely agree. It is much more encouraging when you see words Start a discussion than 0 comments. To make the blog more attractive one should pay attention not only to its content but also to the opportunities for the visitors to express their opinions.

By: Antti Kokkonen

Antti Kokkonen — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:21:13 +0000

Harry, I'm happy my post was helpful. And thanks for taking the time comment, I appreciate it!

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:51:10 +0000

Hi Zemalf
Great stuff. I searched around, found numerous bits of advice but couldn't get it to work. Your straightforward way did it straight-up. Thanks.

By: Melvin

Melvin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:32:31 +0000

cool. I actually had that before until I switched to another template. you're right, its actually the support squad's responsibility to help bloggers when it comes to that thing.

By: Melvin

Melvin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:32:31 +0000

cool. I actually had that before until I switched to another template. you're right, its actually the support squad's responsibility to help bloggers when it comes to that thing.

By: Kevin Tea

Kevin Tea — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:42:29 +0000

Dave

Many thanks for the offer, message sent via your contact page.

By: Beat Schindler

Beat Schindler — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:24:21 +0000

Antti, thanks for a post … first thought I'm not a techie I am not going to do this, then switched to this sounds easy!, only to find I'm running Thesis and things are different, and finally went with your wise “or just leave it be and concentrate on more important things” recommendation such as making sure over time the zero comment thing goes away naturally.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:17:40 +0000

If I get around to doing this, I'll write it up for Thesis theme. I want to, bunch of other stuff I need to do first.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:15:37 +0000

Ping me sometime, I'll give you a hand with it because I use Thesis too.

Not sure if it's in the hook system.

If not, we'll either add our own hook, or just change the source internally. Won't be hard, I can step you through it. Sometime early next week would work (March 8+).

By: Antti Kokkonen

Antti Kokkonen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:10:50 +0000

Excellent, I'm glad this helped! and that I managed to explain it well enough :)

By: Antti Kokkonen

Antti Kokkonen — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:08:12 +0000

With any premium theme it's the responsibility of the support for that theme to help you. If they don't, make a blog post how much their support sucks :)

By: Julius

Julius — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:49:28 +0000

This is an interesting post on how we can encourage more comments by using the right statement. My friends have told me that sometimes, before reading a post, they first try to see how many comments it has, and if it has none, they tend to look for other things to read. I think the steps above will help a lot in this scenario.

By: Kiesha

Kiesha — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:29:28 +0000

Thanks this was a wonderful tip! Now my older posts may get some love :)
I had to do a little digging as you suggested, but I've done it and it looks great.
Thanks for sharing!

By: Kiesha

Kiesha — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:29:28 +0000

Thanks this was a wonderful tip! Now my older posts may get some love :)
I had to do a little digging as you suggested, but I've done it and it looks great.
Thanks for sharing!

By: Kevin Tea

Kevin Tea — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:23:18 +0000