Normal comment count show same label for singular and plural comment count. For example, if your post has one comment, it will show "1 comments" not "1 comment". If your post has no comment, it will show "0 comments" not "No comments".

Follow below steps to customize comment count in post.

1. Goto blogger.com & login


2. On Dashboard, click Layout > Edit HTML




3. On Edit Template, tick Expand Widget Templates
and find below tags (based on Minima template)

<span class='post-comment-link'>
  <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>
    <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
      <a class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 1'>1 <data:top.commentLabel/><b:else/><data:post.numComments/> <data:top.commentLabelPlural/></b:if></a>
    </b:if>
  </b:if>
</span>

replace with

<span class='post-comment-link'>
  <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;item&quot;'>
    <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
      <a class='comment-link' expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick' expr:title='&quot;Comment on &quot; + data:post.title'><b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 0'>No Comments<b:else/><b:if cond='data:post.numComments == 1'>1 Comment<b:else/><data:post.numComments/> Comments</b:if></b:if></a>
    <b:else/>Comments Off
    </b:if>
  </b:if>
</span>

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4. Save Template


You can change No Comments to Leave a Comment, No Responses or Be the first to comment. Also 1 Comment to One Comment or One Response etc. It's up to you.

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