All I Want Are Comments

Is that a WP blog? Then just enable the comments…

You might be better to use something like Haloscan which lends itself to what you need much better than WP does in this situation.

https://www.haloscan.com/

No moshu, it is not a WP blog. The entire site is maintained by hand.

Thanks podz, I’ll check out haloscan. I’ll check back in real soon on how it works for me.

Thanks podz. HaloScan is a good solution for getting comments up and running quickly, but it relies on JavaScript doesn’t write the comments directly onto the post page.

I guess a better way to phrase my question is: How do I merge a currently-existing, completely manually handled site to WordPress?

All the documentation I’ve read deals with how to transfer a site from another blogging tool to WordPress, or how to build a WordPress site from the ground up. In my case I already have my site pages created and the stylesheets they use. I suspect might have to create themes or something, but can anyone nudge me in the right direction?

To bring(?) your existing blog into WP – it’s not an easy task. You have a lot html files I guess, while WP is storing all the content in the MySQL database.
Practically you have to find a tool that would convert all your “posts” into something that can be imported int eh WP database.
By searching you will find many similar requests – I just can’t remember a bulletproof solution.

Alrighty, I know I have some work ahead of me. ?? Thanks moshu and podz for your help.

It looks like really you just need a guestbook type script embedded under your posts…

Maybe…. you could play around with the principles used in this tutorial?

https://www.onlinetools.org/articles/editablepages.php