JComments - put comments count in template

Hi there!

I am using Dominion template (check here: demo.rockettheme.com) and I have some problems since I installed FlexiContent.
By default I can see the number of comments on the frontpage blog layout. Since I installed FlexiContent the number of comments is 0 at every article although there are some comments.
I checked the php file and found this line:

and this:
I would like to know how could I modify the code in order to show correctly the number of comments?

Thank you very much in advance!

Did you read about flexicontent template system ?

try this :
instead of :

Hi,

I'm trying to implement this comment counter from JComments on the category view as well. I can't figure out which file to put this code you specified in though. I tried putting it in the "blog" template that comes with flexicontent by default in template/blog/category_items.php. It isn't working though and it just breaks the page. I put this code next to the read more in this file:

<?php $jcomment_count = JComments::getCommentsCount($this->item->id, 'com_flexicontent'); ?>

anybody know how to fix this? I tried the code above but it didn't work

this solution works fine in category_items.php, here my code: