Adding a comment and like counter to gallery thumbnails

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#1

I'm currently using Buddypress Media with my Buddypress installation. What I'm looking to do is add the count for the number of comments and likes underneath each gallery thumbnail. I read in a thread with similar issues the best way to go about it is to use wordpress's comment count function http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_count_comments with the rtmedia_media_id($rtmedia_id) function, but trying to combined the two hasn't worked. I'm also looking for the correct functions to show the number of likes a images has.

I greatly appreciate any help. Thanks in advance. :)

#2

@rao - You can use the 'rtmedia_after_item' action or override the media-gallery-item.php template for that ( http://rtcamp.com/rtmedia/docs/developer/templating-system/ ).

You would need to add the following on that action or template.

  • For comment count ( http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_count_comments )

    $comment_counts = wp_comment_count( rtmedia_media_id() );

Check the documentation for that as you will get an object containing the necessary details.

  • For like count, there will be a function available in the next release get_rtmedia_like(), which can be used; for now you can use the following
$mediamodel = new RTMediaModel();  
    $actions = $mediamodel->get( array( 'id' => rtmedia_id() ) );  
    if ( isset( $actions[ 0 ]->likes ) ){  
        $actions = intval($actions[ 0 ]->likes);  
    } else {   
        $actions = 0;  
    }   
    echo $actions;
#3