I’m trying to display the total number of comments for a users posts limited to a comment meta. I’ve tried using both get_comments() and WP_Comment_Query() but I get the same result of “1” for the comment count when it should be “3”. Now in this example I can remove 'Count' => true and just loop through the comments and that will return the correct amount of comments in a loop but the count still equals one.
They provide an example here on how to get the count but it doesn’t work for me. Here’s my function.
function get_unseen_comment_count() {
if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
return false;
$user_id = get_current_user_id();
$postids = array();
$posts = get_posts( array(
'numberposts' => -1,
'post_type' => 'fod_articles',
'author' => $user_id,
'post_status' => 'publish'
));
foreach( $posts as $post ) {
$postids[] = $post->ID;
}
$args = array(
'include' => $postids,
'meta_query' => array(
array(
'key' => 'viewed_status',
'value' => 'unseen'
)
),
'count' => true
);
// $comments_query = new WP_Comment_Query;
// $comments = $comments_query->query( $args );
$comments = get_comments($args);
echo '<span class="comment-count">';
echo $comments;
echo '</span>';
}
Now in the codex it doesn’t say that get_comment() supports meta query but you can see on line 181 here that it does. It doesn’t however show support for include but it definitely works when I test using a loop of the actual comments.
Some further testing when I remove the meta_query I do get the total comment count for all posts by the user so my media query seems to be the problem interfering with the count. I tried also just using meta_key and meta_value without a meta query but I get the same result…”1″.
