Showing a Hint on Where to Post a Comment

Nanny22girls from Google Help Groups: Customizing Templates
asks if she could reword the comment line at the end of each post in index pages to say "Leave a comment here", along with the number of comments.

After looking into it, here is my quick fix:


In Template->Edit Html, check on "Expand Widget Templates" to view the entire template. Then, locate <b:includable id='post' var='post'>, and keep scrolling down to see this:

<span class='post-comment-link'>
        <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>

          <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
            <a class='comment-link' 
expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>
          <b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 1'>1 
          <data:top.commentLabel/><b:else/><data:post.numComments/> 
          <data:top.commentLabelPlural/></b:if></a>
          </b:if>
        </b:if>
      </span> 

You are going to replace the code in bold with this code:

<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
  <b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 1'>1 
Comment<!--<data:top.commentLabel/>-->
  <b:else/><data:post.numComments/> 
<data:top.commentLabelPlural/>
  </b:if>
  <a class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' 
expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>Leave your comment here</a>
</b:if>

Notice there is a space at the end of "1" before the code goes to the next line, and the same thing happens with the <data:post.numComments/>. If you don't leave a space, then there won't be a space between the number and the word comment (or comments.) Notice I fix the "1 Comments" bug too.

Here is the result:



and the "1 comments" bug: