comment option not showing up

It might be that that theme doesn’t support comments for whatever reason. Have you tried the default theme?

Sounds like your current theme doesn’t include the relevant comment template tags and/or comment form. So the option are:

– change to a theme that does include a comment display/form
– edit the current theme to add the missing tags. And possibly the comment.php template file.

oh man… i wish i would of noticed this when i downloaded the template… ugh! means i have to redesign my header… thats what i get for not thoroughly checking it out eh?

thank you.

quick question – i really like this template… is there any way to “add” comments to the css or something?

Comment template tags have to be added to the theme’s template files. Usually single.php. The comment form is a template file all on its own that would also be needed. CSS is purely for the colours and formatting of your pages. It can’t be used to add extra functionality. Sorry.

Esmi- you seem to know a lot… so you are saying i “can” add a comment template tag to the single.php? is this correct? if yes, can you guide me where i might find a comment template tag?

i did look at my single.php and i do have the following code in there:

<?php comments_template(); ?>

i also have a comments.php page to edit…

what can i do to get comments on this template? again my website is:

https://www.reachnations.com/nations

thank you so much for your time…it is SINCERELY appreciated.

You’d need to add comments_popup_link to all post listing templates (eg: index.php, archive.php etc) and wp_list_comments to single.php to actually display your comments.

thank you! i will give this a “go” –

ok, i added the folowing code:

<?php wp_list_comments( $args ); ?>

to single.php

and the following code:

<?php comments_popup_link
(‘zero’,’one’,’more’,’CSSclass’,’none’);
?>

to index.php

and i’m not seeing any comments anywhere…shouldn’t i see something? can you verify i’m putting the code in the correct spot?

Change <?php wp_list_comments( $args ); ?> to <?php wp_list_comments(); ?> and

<?php comments_popup_link
('zero','one','more','CSSclass','none');?>

to

<?php if('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?><?php comments_popup_link('Comment on '.$post->post_title, '1 Comment on '.$post->post_title, '% Comments on '.$post->post_title,'postcomment','Comments are off for '.$post->post_title); ?><?php endif;?>

well, i changed the code as you said, but i’m still not seeing comments come up… does the code have to be on a certain line or place? again, any info is greatly appreciated…

the website is: https://www.reachnations.com/nations in case you want to view the code…