wp_count_comments() WP 1.0

Retrieve total comments for blog or single post.

The comment stats are cached and then retrieved, if they already exist in the cache.

Return

stdClass. The number of comments keyed by their status.

Usage

wp_count_comments( $post_id );

$post_id(int)

Restrict the comment counts to the given post.
Default: 0, which indicates that comment counts for the whole site will be retrieved

Notes

• See: get_comment_count() Which handles fetching the live comment counts.

Changelog

Code of wp_count_comments() wp count comments ^{WP 5.8.1}

function wp_count_comments( $post_id = 0 ) {
	$post_id = (int) $post_id;

	/**
	 * Filters the comments count for a given post or the whole site.
	 *
	 * @since 2.7.0
	 *
	 * @param array|stdClass $count   An empty array or an object containing comment counts.
	 * @param int            $post_id The post ID. Can be 0 to represent the whole site.
	 */
	$filtered = apply_filters( 'wp_count_comments', array(), $post_id );
	if ( ! empty( $filtered ) ) {
		return $filtered;
	}

	$count = wp_cache_get( "comments-{$post_id}", 'counts' );
	if ( false !== $count ) {
		return $count;
	}

	$stats              = get_comment_count( $post_id );
	$stats['moderated'] = $stats['awaiting_moderation'];
	unset( $stats['awaiting_moderation'] );

	$stats_object = (object) $stats;
	wp_cache_set( "comments-{$post_id}", $stats_object, 'counts' );

	return $stats_object;
}

Related Functions

counts (counting of any)

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