It works fine on single posts too (or anywhere else for that matter), not just the home page. I've used it in plugins. <div><br></div><div>I'm not sure if it's a flaw in the system though. comments_link(), from my understanding, is only meant to link to the comments. If there are no comments to link to, we probably shouldn't attempt to link to them. </div><div><br></div><div>With that said, I've long believed that the WP template tags could use an overhaul. There are a lot of these little oddities that are confusing. <br><br>On Thursday, October 23, 2014, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph) <<a href="mailto:philip@frumph.net">philip@frumph.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>That’s nice, but comment_popup_link() only works on the
is_home/is_front_page while plugin authors and others who create unique loops
that need to work elsewhere are apparently going to be out of luck.</div>
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<div>Say for example someone wants to put a comments link at the top of the post
itself and the post is quite long, it will not work if there are no comments
since #comments doesn’t exist. It will not auto-realign to the comments
area because comments_popup_link will not appear on the singles</div>
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<div>But hey, whatever you want. Just pointing out a flaw in the
system.</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="justin@justintadlock.com" href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','justin@justintadlock.com');" target="_blank">Justin Tadlock</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 23, 2014 8:37 AM</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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,
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Philip M. Hofer (Frumph)
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','philip@frumph.net');" target="_blank">philip@frumph.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#ccc 1px solid;MARGIN:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;PADDING-LEFT:1ex" class="gmail_quote">comments_link() get_comments_link() appends
#comments to the end of the url<br><br>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><br>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><br>^ 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><br>-
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