awful list of paragraphs with zero comment

[nise]

Having a list of remarks that say exactly the same makes no sense imo, e.g.

0 COMMENTS ON THE WHOLE PAGE 0 COMMENTS ON PARAGRAPH 1 0 COMMENTS ON PARAGRAPH 2 0 COMMENTS ON PARAGRAPH 3 0 COMMENTS ON PARAGRAPH 4 0 COMMENTS ON PARAGRAPH 5 0 COMMENTS ON PARAGRAPH 6 0 COMMENTS ON PARAGRAPH 7 0 COMMENTS ON PARAGRAPH 8 0 COMMENTS ON PARAGRAPH 9 0 COMMENTS ON PARAGRAPH 10

Therefore, in commentpress-core/commentpress-core/assets/includes/theme-functions.php on line 2430 these remarks could be put under the condition of having more then one comments:

if($comment_count > 0){
    echo '<h3 id="para_heading-' . $text_sig . '"' . $no_comments_class . '><a class="comment_block_permalink" title="' . $markup['permalink_text'] . '" href="#para_heading-' . $text_sig . '">' . $markup['heading_text'] . '</a></h3>' . "\n\n";
}

[christianwach]

@nise Unfortunately excluding the markup when there are no comments won't work since there won't be anything to reveal once a comment has been submitted on a relevant paragraph.

However your observation is very timely because I have just implemented a solution to this in the latest release. Please refer to this support ticket on the WordPress site where you'll see that the following CSS in a child theme will have the desired effect:

.no_comments {
    display: none;
}

I'll implement this as an admin option in the next release. I'll make it optional at this stage because some people like to navigate the content of a page using these headers.

Cheers, Christian

[nise]

You are right my solution did not work for new comment. Thank you for the css hint.