Adding Comments to Pages

hi bloggerme1999,

you need to understand the difference between post and page. post is for updating the content on regular basis whereas page is almost static. so in post you can comment on the article being posted.

Most pages in templates are not coded to allow comments. This means the “code” is not present to display or accept comments. If the php code is not present, there can’t be comments even if you allow them in the admin panel for that page.

If you want comments on pages you’ll most likely need to edit code.
I don’t recommend this unless you make a backup copy and/or understand how website files work, etc.

If you know someone who understands some code and, preferably familiar with wordpress, comments can be added with one line of code to a file called page.php:
<?php comments_template(); ?>

This line of code inserts the comments.

Good luck!

Thank you both for your help and for being so prompt in answering my inquiry. I guess I need to rething pages vs posts. I wanted pages to list my stories so my readers could pick and choose without having to scroll through so much to find the one they want. I guess I will need to move them to posts. Oh well. Thank you both for your help! ??

You can still link directly to a post. Whatever you are seeing in the url while you visit a post is the permalink to that post. You can simply create a link to that specific post using its’ permalink.

You really want to use posts anyway for things you want your readers to follow in general because posts are what make up your rss feed. Pages are really for more static content like about or contact pages.