How do I….

February 9th, 2008

See how many comments are on a specific post on my own blog?

In WordPress, its easy to see all the comments on a single post and they are even numbered for you.

  • Simply login to your administrators page/dashboard,
  • Click “Manage” You’ll see a list of all your posts.
  • Click the number under the “comments” column that corresponds to the post you are interested in.
  • Voila!

How is this useful?

If you remember that a specific post has a comment you’re looking for this can be faster than using the search function under “comments”.

And if you run blog contests that require entrants to leave a post, this is the easiest way to pick a winner.  Simply note the number of comments there are and have someone special choose a number between 1 and that number.  That commenter will win!

Much less work that printing out the comments and having a drawing–and still random since you will choose someone who hasn’t memorized or even looked at the comments on your blog, right?

Hope that helps!

This answer is Wordpress specific.  Check with your blog hosting company  if you are using something else. :


Trackback URI | Comments RSS

Leave a Reply

Name (required)

Email (required)

Website

Speak your mind

    About

    This pair of resourceful entrepreneurs are geared up and ready to tackle your small business issues. Post your question--they'll answer it!.

    Blogroll
    Admin