Exclude custom comment type from count in WordPress

If you’ve added a new type of comments in WordPress, but do not want them to appear in the normal comments list, and also exclude them from the comments count, then do the following:

1. To exclude custom type comments from the normal list:

Add type argument to wp_list_comments function (usually it’s in comments.php file of the active theme) .

wp_list_comments(array('type' => 'comment'));

2. To exclude custom type comments from the post comments count (comment_count):

Add to functions.php code below:

add_action('wp_update_comment_count', 'sniff_update_comment_count');
function sniff_update_comment_count($post_id) {
global $wpdb;
$post_id = (int)$post_id;
if ( !$post_id )
return false;
if ( !$post = get_post($post_id) )
return false;

$new = (int) $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare("SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM $wpdb->comments
WHERE comment_post_ID = %d AND comment_approved = '1' AND comment_type != 'community_review' ", $post_id) );
$wpdb->update( $wpdb->posts, array('comment_count' => $new), array('ID' => $post_id) );

clean_post_cache( $post );
}

Change community_review to your custom comment type name in comment_type != ‘community_review’ (line 12) which you want to exclude.

That’s all.