Hopefully I'm posting this in the right area. I've done a fair amount of searching to make sure that this hasn't been something discussed but none of the posts I found contained working answers.
The only thing I know to note worth mentioning is that I built my theme based off of the Blueprint theme available on Drupal.org. Other than that my problem is as follows...
Ideally I would like the comment count to ALWAYS be displayed, whether a user is logged in or not. Right now I have it set so that anonymous users can read but not post comments, while authenticated users post as well.
When a user is not logged in it shows the "Login or register to post comments" in the $links area but no count is displayed. After a user logs in this text is removed completely and there is no comment count or comment text in general available. I swear at one time this WAS displaying but maybe I'm going crazy.
Ideally for an anonymous user it would read out as: "2 comments - Login or register to post comments"
Ideally for an authenticated user it would read out as "2 comments - View comments"
My first question is - did I break something? My second question would be how to get the end result of what I described in the notes above.
Any takers?
Thanks in advance.