Use comment_number function: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comments_number

Add these to your theme functions.php (or child theme). https://gist.github.com/rahularyan/c7556c0418bbf9a77493

Get the 1.3 version and enter license key and then click activate to get automatic theme updates.

Do not create new page for home page as there already home.php exist in theme. You just need to update AnsPress to github version to fix home page pagination.

Go to AnsPress option and enable base page slug before question:

So Rahul, I may try using the wp_set_current_user instead of attributing to one user like atultiwari did. How would you set it up in the code atultiwari created above. I get the idea behind the function but I don’t understand how it would be implemented. Not sure how the meta conflicts.