Conditionally include Comment Count Button in Blog page if there are any

[MikeKirkland]

I want to show the Comment Count Button on the Blog Page only if there are comments. Right now it's showing "Leave a Comment" if there are no comments for the post/snippet. That's silly because the post has not been read. For posts with comments, the button shows the number of comments - which is also a bit silly because there is a link to the Reply area at the bottom of the Post.

First things first - conditionally showing the button.

I've tried using the following code in page_blog.php in the child theme (which was already modified to allow a custom image for the header), copied from comments.php just changing add_filter to remove_filter.

if ( 0 == get_comments_number() ) { 
    remove_filter('get_comments_link', 'genesis_comments_link_filter', 10, 2 );
}

This has no effect.
Thanks
Mike

http://site is currently only on a LAN

[Brad Dalton]

What you need to do is modify the following function located inside genesis > lib > shortcodes > post.php

add_shortcode( 'post_comments', 'genesis_post_comments_shortcode' );

using the genesis_post_comments_shortcode filter so it only displays when the comments number is 1 or greater

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[Brad Dalton]

Any modifications would need to be completed inside your child theme folders functions file and never to the code in Genesis.

You'll also need to add a conditional to the code so it only executes on the blog page.

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