<div dir="ltr"><div>If you go back and look at some of the original themes or even in the `wp-includes/theme-compat/comments.php`, you'll notice this is how it's done and has always been done as far as I can remember. The `#comments` section isn't shown until there are actual comments. </div><div><br></div><div>This is why I'd consider `comments_link()` and `get_comments_link()` the inappropriate functions when there are no comments for the post. You'd be linking to something that does not yet exist.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd use `comments_popup_link()` instead, which will display a link to either `#comments` or `#respond` depending on the situation. This function also takes into account things like whether comments are open, pings are open, or a password is required before showing the link. </div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net" target="_blank">philip@frumph.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">comments_link() get_comments_link() appends #comments to the end of the url<br>
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If the comments section displaying on the single pages/posts does not have a id="comments" then the comments_link appending of the #comments is worthless .. I see quite a few themes that only have the #respond section but not the wrapper around it for #comments<br>
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The most common reason is that dev's have it so that it's in the part of the comments.php section that only shows up when the post actually has a comment made for it ..<br>
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^ which it shouldn't, then it's not seen or used as a ref. for the #comments in the comments_link; it should be the class for the wrapper for the whole entire comments section - or at least shown as a marker location regardless if the post has comments or not<br>
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- Phil<br>
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