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Update Comments Count

Description

This plugin provides a simple method to update the comment counters stored in each post.

Works with multiple AJAX calls and processes packs of 50 posts by default.

For each entry, the comments counter is updated calling the WordPress function wp_update_comment_count_now.

Allows support for existing custom post types, and gives some plugin filters to change core configuration.

Screenshots

  • Updating posts comments counter via AJAX

Installation

  1. Unzip and upload update-comments-count folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Go to menu Tools > Update Comments Count to start the updating process

FAQ

Why do I need to update the posts comments counter?

Sometimes, when interacting with another plugins that deal with comments, the commments counter originally computed by WordPress can be wrong. This plugin solves this problem using massively the standar WordPress way.

Reviews

སྤྱི་ཟླ་དགུ་པ། 2, 2022
As of the time of writing, this plugin hasn't been updated for over 7 years. However, it still works using PHP 7.4 and WordPress 6.0.2. This plugin fixes an annoying thing that misleads users, so I highly recommend giving it a try even today.
སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་པ། 25, 2019
The plugin helped me fixing the issue with wrong comment numbers after manipulating comments via PHPMyAdmin. Still working with WP 5.2.4 and PHP 7.3.
སྤྱི་ཟླ་ལྔ་པ། 10, 2019
Worked perfectly. Would be good to get the "Tested up to" tag updated so you can appear more prominently in search results in the repo. But thanks for making this - saved me a ton of time!
སྤྱི་ཟླ་བཅུ་པ། 3, 2018
I don't know what its supposed to do, but it didnt do what I wanted. I made changes to wp_posts comment_count but the numbers aren't showing on the site. I hoped this would force the site to update the count I changed from the backend Mysql, no go.
སྤྱི་ཟླ་དགུ་པ། 23, 2018
It worked even though it has not been updated for long
སྤྱི་ཟླ་བདུན་པ། 20, 2018
After an import from wordpress.com the comment counts were way off. This worked perfectly. Thanks! WordPress version 4.9.7 and PHP 7.
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Contributors & Developers

“Update Comments Count” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

1.0

Release Date: April 23th, 2015

  • First and tested released until WordPress 4.2
  • Tested code from WordPress 3.3.2 version.