Comments: add post comment count to post link

[gwwar]

We've received feedback that it's not clear that the post link will go to a single post view with comments. Let's add a bubble icon with the post comment count, to give a better hint.

cc @drw158

[gwwar]

@drw158 if we want a comment count next/in the bubble I think we might need a bit of design work. I imagine some really active posts have 100s or 1000s of comments.

[davewhitley]

We can just do the bubble first if that is faster. I'll start designing the bubble count now.

[davewhitley]

The space is more limited than I thought, but here are 2 mockups:

I didn't consider adding a comment count at first, but I do think it would be helpful. Here is what WP Admin has:

(gray count is approved, red count is pending)

I don't think having 2 counts is necessary and it's a bit confusing. I'm not sure what our count should represent, but I think approved would be most helpful.

On the other hand, another option, which I am leaning more towards now, is to not do the comments count, since we will have the counts in the tabs at some point.

Open for feedback!

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