Featured Posts Widget – Adding Comment link to footer

[korywoodard]

I know that I can have the comment link in the header meta, but I'm curious if I can move that comment link to be below the content in the featured posts widget?

[nunotmp]

Sure you can. To do this you will have to modify two hooks.

add_filter( 'genesis_post_info', 'wpz_post_info' );
function wpz_post_info( $info ) {
	$info = '[post_date] by [post_author_posts_link]  [post_edit]';
	return $info;
}
 
add_filter( 'genesis_post_meta', 'wpz_post_meta' );
function wpz_post_meta($meta) {
   $meta = '[post_categories] [post_tags] [post_comments]';
   return $meta;
}

Here is a gist.

You first need to rebuild each filter and then you edit it the way you like. In the gist I moved [post_comments] to the post meta.

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[korywoodard]

Trying that now!

[korywoodard]

I guess I'm missing something here because the link is still showing up by the date with that widget.. I guess I need to force the footer meta to show with the widget, but I'm not sure how to do that.

[nunotmp]

Is the comment count now showing at the bottom?

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[korywoodard]

No. I would share a link, but I'm developing locally. Here's what I'm trying to do.

So let me explain: I'm using the Featured Posts Widget to create a home page of popular posts. I've already got that taken care of as well as the share buttons. In this widget, though, it shows the post title and post date, but it doesn't show the footer meta (i.e. the comment link). I need it to do that, so I think I need to somehow force the footer meta links to show with the widget, but I don't know how to do that.

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