Comments count in Portal Theme

Hi Olaf

This would usually be a custom development task but let me see if I can help out:

1. You need a child theme: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes. If aren’t running one check that link. Your style sheet in the child theme can look look as follows:

/*
 Theme Name:   Portal Child
 Author:       SiteOrgin
 Template:     portal
 Version:      1.0.0
*/

@import url(“../portal/style.css”);

We now need to add to the portal_post_on function, to do that we need to pass it through functions.php in the child theme. So create a blank file in your child theme, name it functions.php and paste the following in:

<?php

if ( ! function_exists( 'portal_posted_on' ) ) :
/**
 * Prints HTML with meta information for the current post-date/time and author.
 *
 * @since portal 1.0
 */
function portal_posted_on() {
	printf( __( 'Posted on <a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark" rel="nofollow"><time class="entry-date" datetime="%3$s">%4$s</time></a><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%5$s" title="%6$s" rel="author" rel="nofollow">%7$s</a></span></span>‘, ‘portal’ ),
		esc_url( get_permalink() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_date( ‘c’ ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_date() ),
		esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( ‘ID’ ) ) ),
		esc_attr( sprintf( __( ‘View all posts by %s’, ‘portal’ ), get_the_author() ) ),
		get_the_author()
	);

	if ( comments_open() ) { 
		echo ‘<span class="comments-link">‘;
  		comments_popup_link( __( ‘ Leave a comment’, ‘portal’ ), __( ‘ 1 Comment’, ‘portal’ ), __( ‘ % Comments’, ‘portal’ ) );
  		echo ‘</span>‘;
	}

}
endif;

comments_popup_link is my addition there.

ZIP your portal-child folder and install via Appearance > Themes > Add New. You will need to redo any Appearance > Customize settings you may have been using.

If you want the finished child theme you can find it here: https://siteorigin.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/portal-child.zip