Blog Comments Hidden Under Button

Hi there, comments do not show on Category, Date Archive, Tag or the Blog (posts) page, but only on the single post pages. This is typical design for nearly all themes.

The only theme I’m aware of that has comments on the blog page (posts page) by default would be the P2 theme with the O2 (Oxygen) plugin. More on this option here: https://geto2.com/

Comments are handled by WordPress core software and only single post pages show the comments. It could be that you could create a custom plugin, but I expect it would be a lot of work

The reason that comments are not shown on archive type pages (blog, category, etc.) is because if they were, and a post had 50 or so comments, the visitors would have to scroll a long ways in order to get to the next post. I’ve actually followed a couple of sites where posts would get 200-1000 comment on each post.

One suggestion would be to use the More Tag in your posts so that only a portion of the content shows on the archive type pages. The visitors would then have to go to the single post page in order to read the rest of the post and then see the comments below the content.

For the archive type pages, we you could add the following and the style the comment link.

.entry-footer .comments-link a {
	color: #cc0000;
	font-size: 150%;
	font-weight: bold;
}

Thanks, I appreciate your detailed response! I would like to add the More Tag, but I was a little confused about what to do. I copied and pasted the code onto one of the archive pages and nothing happened.

The code I gave above is custom CSS. Go to Customize > Additional CSS and add the code there. If you have not yet added any custom CSS, delete all the informational text in that window before adding the CSS.

For the More Tag, put a blank paragraph in your post where you want the read more to appear and then click the Read More button in the editor (red arrow).