Getting comment bubble to show on pages

[nomad_jess]

Hi there,

I just made some changes to my site so that the number of comments on each post appear in a conversation bubble (using this tutorial: http://slickwp.com/genesis-comment-bubble/).

That has worked fine, only I would also like to have these comment bubbles appearing on my homepage as well as other pages (currently they are only showing when you click through to a post). I am using the Genesis Featured Amplified Widget on the homepage and trying to work out how to display the number of comments in the bubble, rather than just the regular text as I have at the moment.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Jess

http://notesofnomads.com

[Brad Dalton]

I doubt it will work in the plugins widget however you could use it in the standard loop or a custom loop.

Should work using the loop without the plugin if you remove the conditional tag and closing curly bracket.

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[nomad_jess]

Hi Brad,

Thanks for getting back to me. So no go when using the amplified widget, hey? The only reason I'm using that widget is to have pagination so that readers can move to more recent posts from the homepage. Is there another way to do that without using this widget?

And if I change back to the standard Genesis Featured Widget to display posts on my home page, will the bubbles display then anyway? I guess I can just go ahead and test that, but can you provide some more guidance about the conditional I should be removing?

This is what I have in my functions.php file right now:

add_filter( 'genesis_post_info', 'sp_post_info_filter' );

function sp_post_info_filter( $post_info ) {
$num_comments = get_comments_number();
$comments_link = get_comments_link();
$bubble = "<span class='bubble'>".$num_comments."</span>";
$post_info = 'By [post_author_posts_link] on [post_date] '.$bubble.'';

return $post_info;

}

Basically, I would like to style my homepage with comment bubbles to encourage more interaction. If there is another way to achieve this with my most recent posts on the homepage, I'd be happy to consider alternatives if you have any suggestions.

Many thanks in advance,

Jess

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