Update Comment Count From Two Sources

  • I have facebook comments and WordPress comments enabled on my site. I also have a little comment counter for each post next to the title. I want the comment counter to display the total comments from both facebook comments and wordpress comments.

    When a facebook comment is made I count both the wordpress comments and facebook comments and update the comment count under the post in the DB with a custom function outside of wordpress. That works great…

    My problem is that when a new wordpress comment is made, it calls wp_update_comment_count which only counts the comments from wordpress.

    I could, but do not want to, edit a core file. I could change the wp_update_comment_count function to count all the comments like I do after a facebook comment is made, but I don’t like editing core files.

    Is there a filter or hook I could use after the wordpress counting that I could use to call my own counting function and update the DB with the total comments? Or is there a way to override that function through my theme?

    thanks in advance!

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  • Thread Starter cconoly

    (@cconoly)

    Nevermind, I finally found an action hook…

    add_action( 'wp_update_comment_count', 'my_func' );

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