Comments field in Element (GB 2.0)

Hi there,

1. I’m not sure I understand what you mean by closed comments, do you mean you want to hide the no comments when there’s no comment on the post?

2. No, there’s no performance impact.

So you only want it to hide when the comment is closed?

and you do want it to show “no comments” when the comment is open?

Hi there,

Could you try adding this snippet:

add_filter('render_block', function ($block_content, $block) {
    if (! isset($block['attrs']['className']) || strpos($block['attrs']['className'], 'hide-no-comment') === false) {
        return $block_content;
    }

    global $post;
    $post_id = $post->ID;

    // If there are no comments, return empty to hide the block
    if (get_comments_number($post_id) === 0) {
        return '';
    }

    return $block_content;
}, 10, 2);

Then, on the block with the comment count tag, add a class of hide-no-comment under Advanced > Additional CSS Classes.
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Hi there,

you could try this:

add_filter('comments_number', function($output) {
    if (!comments_open()) {
        $output = 'Comments are closed';
    }
    return $output;
});

And don’t set any specific comment text in the dynamic data options.

Try this instead, and make sure the hide-no-comment class is added to the text block.

add_filter( 'render_block', function ( $block_content, $block ) {
    // Check if the block has attributes and className
    if ( 
        ! empty( $block['attrs']['className'] ) &&
        strpos( $block['attrs']['className'], 'hide-no-comment' ) !== false 
    ) {
        // Check if comments are closed and no comments exist
        if ( ! comments_open() && get_comments_number() < 1 ) {
            $block_content = ''; // Hide the block
        }
    }

    return $block_content;
}, 20, 2 );

With this filter it hides the whole text block when comments are closed 🙁

Isn’t that what you want?

Can you explain some more about what you want?

And can you share 4 post links that are:

1. comments open, has comments.
2. comments open, no comments.
3. comments closed, no comments.
4. comments closed, has comments.

And let me know what you want for the 4 kinds of posts exactly.

An element to be displayed in posts with a GB Text block with three dynamic fields: date, post date modified and comments count.

Use a separated text block for the comments count, then the code should work.

Yes, that’s right 🙂

You don’t have to use Grid block for the layout, just add another text block, and set both text blocks’ display to inline-block.