comment box and comments numbered, but none shown

@moviedump

As I understood you wish to show commented text. If you are familiar with coding then try check your theme’s comment template.
Or you can check this tutorial which may help you to resolve your issue.

Comment Template

Adding comments to a WordPress theme template

Please check and let me know.
Thanks!

this is what ends up in the browser where the comments output should be:

		<ol class="commentlist">
				</li><!-- #comment-## -->
</li><!-- #comment-## -->
</li><!-- #comment-## -->
			</ol>

which is obviously broken.

to get the comments at all, edit comments.php of your theme, find:

<ol class="commentlist">
				<?php wp_list_comments( array( 'callback' => 'imbalance2_comment' ) ); ?>
			</ol>

this callback function imbalance2_comment() is broken; you can find it in functions.php of the theme.

remove the callback, so you have:

<ol class="commentlist">
				<?php wp_list_comments(); ?>
			</ol>

this will use the default comments output (which might not be perfect for your theme’s layout), but you should see all comments with their texts.

Thanks Michael! That worked. Yes the layout is odd now but I can live with that.

Jatin, thanks also for the links. They might help clear up formatting issues.

update, to fix the problem at its core which should give you the intended comments layout:

edit functions.php, find:

function imbalance2_comment( $comment, $args, $depth ) {
	$GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment;
	switch ( $comment->comment_type ) :
		case '' :
	?>

change it to:

function imbalance2_comment( $comment, $args, $depth ) {
	$GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment;
	switch ( $comment->comment_type ) :
		case 'comment' :
	?>

and restore the edited section in comments.php back to:

			<ol class="commentlist">
				<?php wp_list_comments( array( 'callback' => 'imbalance2_comment' ) ); ?>
			</ol>

Thanks again Michael,

Another good fix. All I need now is more comments ??