How to removing "Comment 0 /" on Grid Blog?

I am wanting “Comment 0 /” not to show when there is 0 comments. I want it blank.

I tried removing the checkmark from “check to display” Blog Post Comment Count in Blog Layout – Enfold Child Theme Options
but that did not stop the display of the Blog Post Comment Count when displayed in Grid Block Format

Here is a screenshot from my site http://screenshot.co/#!/da672a23a5 and I have circled in red the area I want to be made invisible

I have the postslider.php setup in the Child Theme per another posts instructions, and that is working.
I believe here is the code that I need to modify, but I don’t know how to modify it.

Starting from line 604

if($show_meta && !empty($excerpt))
{
$meta = “<div class=’slide-meta’>”;
if ( $commentCount != “0” || comments_open($the_id) && $entry->post_type != ‘portfolio’)
{
$link_add = $commentCount === “0” ? “#respond” : “#comments”;
$text_add = $commentCount === “1” ? __(‘Comment’, ‘avia_framework’ ) : __(‘Comments’, ‘avia_framework’ );

$meta .= “<div class=’slide-meta-comments’>{$commentCount} {$text_add}</div><div class=’slide-meta-del’>/</div>”;
}
$markup = avia_markup_helper(array(‘context’ => ‘entry_time’,’echo’=>false, ‘id’=>$the_id, ‘custom_markup’=>$custom_markup));
$meta .= “<time class=’slide-meta-time updated’ $markup>” .get_the_time(get_option(‘date_format’), $the_id).”</time>”;
$meta .= “</div>”;

if( strpos($blogstyle, ‘elegant-blog’) === false )
{
$output .= $meta;
$meta = “”;
}
}

• This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by kpenner36.