How do i number my comments?

try this
back up your theme’s comments.php
open it in notepad and add this
<p id="comments"><b><?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</b></p>
right below
<?php if ($comments) : ?>
or what you have that is similar

I want to try this but where do I back up my theme’s comment.php? thank you!

You can simply make a copy of the comments.php (located in your theme directory). (copy and paste what is in the file currently into a file on your computer, or wherever you would like to keep the backup OR simply download the current comments.php file using FTP)

Further more – you can read more about this here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/comments_number

Hi jenz…thank you. I’m scared to death that I’m going to loose something thing…lol. how do I use FTP?

isn’t there just a plug-in for this?

There may be a plugin – but you actually do not need one. If you are not sure about or comfortable with FTP – you can use the Editor in the WordPress admin (Appearance > Editor > comments.php. Open that, copy everything in there, paste it somewhere for a backup, and then try adding the code above. That code will display the number of comments on your single post pages. If you want to show the number of comments somewhere else (in your index/archive pages, you would need to add that to some other templates. I hope this helps!

and I just want to number the Comments Not the ‘there are blank many comments’ ….
https://kreationsbykimberlyrae.com/blog

yes, I want to SEE A NUMBER by each COMMENT….will the above code do that?

Where do I start to put the text above?
do I delete what is below ‘you can start editing here’?

OK – so you do not want to see the total number of comments (I see your site already shows this) – but in the actual comments section you want to show #1, #2, #3 next to the user names/icons?

YES!!!

Yes, I want it to show #1, # 2 # 3 …etc. Can you help me with that?