[Support request] How to change ‘X’ thoughts on ‘post title’ in comment section

[Shami]

I just wish If I could change the title of the comment section.

Instead of: ‘X’ thoughts on ‘post title’

I want to make it: Reader Comments (count)

Is there any easy fix for it?

[David]

Hi there,

try this PHP Snippet:

add_filter( 'generate_comment_form_title', function() {
    $comments_number = get_comments_number();

    return sprintf( // WPCS: XSS OK.
        /* translators: 1: number of comments */
        esc_html( _nx(
            'Reader Comments %1$s',
	    'Reader Comments %1$s',
            $comments_number,
            'comments title',
            'generatepress'
        ) ),
        number_format_i18n( $comments_number ),
	get_the_title()
    );
} );

[Shami]

Thanks, David. It worked perfectly.

There is one thing though: The above code doesn’t put brackets around the comment’s count. So I placed them myself.

I replaced this:

/* translators: 1: number of comments */
esc_html( _nx(
‘Reader Comments %1$s’,
‘Reader Comments %1$s’,
$comments_number,
‘comments title’,
‘generatepress’
) ),

With this:

/* translators: 1: number of comments */
esc_html( _nx(
‘Reader Comments (%1$s)’,
‘Reader Comments (%1$s)’,
$comments_number,
‘comments title’,
‘generatepress’
) ),

It works fine now. Did I do it right?

[David]

Yep thats correct.

[Jesse]

Hi David,

Is there a way to improve upon this snippet so it will show “1 comment” instead of “1 comments” if there is only one comment?

Thanks!

[Elvin]

Hi Jesse,

You’ll have to set the values inside _nx() checking the comment count:

Something like this should work.

add_filter( 'generate_comment_form_title', function(){
	   $comments_number = get_comments_number();
		return sprintf(
			esc_html(
				/* translators: 1: number of comments, 2: post title */
				_nx(
						'%1$s Comment on “%2$s”',
						'%1$s Comments on “%2$s”',
						$comments_number,
						'comments title',
						'generatepress'
				)
			),
			number_format_i18n( $comments_number ),
			get_the_title()
		);
});

Simply remove on “%2$s” if you don’t want the title.

[Author]

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