While UTW, she is a casualty in these modern, taxonomic times; http://www.neato.co.nz/wordpress-things/utw-theme-compatibility-thing/ exists and allows UTW_ShowWhatever functions to keep on working with WordPress 2.3. Just so’s you know.

*and* I have a plugin in the proverbial pipeline with similar functionality to UTW tag rendering (at least, in a “the kinds of things it can do”) except with more awesome. Yes. More awesome.

So, uh, if you find the tag stuff in WordPress isn’t the cats pyjamas; boy howdy, one of those might just be the thing you’re after.

echo $comment_count . ' - ';

If you have any more questions, would you mind posting them on the forum? It just makes these kind of requests easier to keep track of. Cheers.

For example:

Comment # 3
October 21, 2007 at 9:51 pm
UserName

Or

#3 – October 21, 2007 at 9:51 pm
UserName

I run a blog that tends to get very comment-heavy, 300-400 comments isn’t out of the ordinary. This makes navigating comments very difficult for readers. Comment numbers make it a bit easier for readers to reply or respond to another comment:

#3 – I like the cut of your jib.

Ideally, users would simply link back to the appropriate comment, unfortunately, not every that participates is web savvy. Likewise for referring back to the user/datetime stamp, too much work to type all that out.

I’ve tried nested comments with another theme before, while the concept was good, most users didn’t care for it.

Which brings me back to simple sequential comment numbers.

Please!

It was a pleasure to make you aware of this “unwanted behaviour”. I like your theme very much. I tried a lot of WP themes, but yours remains my favorite, the one I’ll always recommend.

Long life to Tarski Theme !