I can’t be more specific with the displaying of the comments because every template is different. If I used my template’s code in the area where I wrote “ADD YOUR OWN CODE HERE!”, and you used the code on your WordPress blog, it may mess up your blog’s layout.

The file you need to edit should be single.php of your WordPress theme. This hack is not very easy to do for people with no programming background.

Can you edit this post to a step to step process? I understood what your point about this topic but it lacks step by step explanation for beginners.

With this I managed to correctly count comments and trackbacks in the same area showing comments, but I can not integrate well at the top of the entrance, where you put the typical “published that day by that person, x comments”

That is, I also want the same effect in single.php, archive.php, etc. … in short, in all places where number comments are shows.

Any ideas?

Thanks again!

The trailing parenthesis in the 2nd code block is continued in the 3rd code block.

FYI — in your second code block, you’re missing a trailing parenthesis to close the IF block off.

Why most tutorials on this topic are incomplete and how you may separate WordPress comments from trackbacks and display counters for both of them….