Comments not working…

  • Hi folks,

    I’ve been using WordPress for a couple months and have ignored the fact that readers cannot add comments. I’m now ready to tackle the problem.

    My blog’s at https://www.seedlibrary.org/wp.

    When you click to leave a comment, the browser tries to load (for example) https://www.seedlibrary.org/wp/?p=98#respond, but to my eyes it looks like it’s just loading the post (i.e., /wp/?p=98). I don’t see an anchor for “respond,” so I’m assuming it’s supposed to trigger something (the pop up comments, perhaps?) that it’s not triggering.

    I rigged this theme up myself rather haphazardly, so perhaps I am missing a crucial template file or something.

    Any advice?

    Doug

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  • Hi

    Something is not correct in your template. When I am on your homepage and click on the title The Fickleness of Spring, I am supposed to see that post alone on a page by itself with the comments below it and the comment entry form below that. Instead I am seeing your blog page with a series of posts on it and no comments.

    I can’t tell for certain what’s going on, of course, but I would guess you are missing the template single.php from your theme folder, and that WP is using either index.php or archive.php to display multiple posts on what should be one post on a page.

    This relates to your comments issue, because comments are only displayed on single.php, and if you don’t have that template, you’re not going to see any comments or the comments entry form.

    If you don’t have that page, my suggestion is borrow the code from the default WordPress theme, including comments.php and comments-popup.php, and integrate them into your theme.

    Thread Starter dugma78

    (@dugma78)

    A-ha! You were exactly right! Thanks so much. If you’d like some free seeds for your help, drop me a line with your address and a couple packs you’d like via the contact form on the website.

    Thanks a lot,

    Doug

    I have the exact same situation as presented here, i.e. when you click on the post title, you don’t get a separate page for just that post, and no comment box appears. The only difference is that I DO have a single.php file in my theme. Any ideas on what could be causing it not to work properly?

    I just noticed my post permalinks are weird, i.e. I only have two posts so far and they both end like this “/archives/%post%20name%/”
    Could this be the issue?

    In my permalink settings, it’s set to custom structure : /archives/%post name%;
    I’ve also got All in One SEO plugin installed.

    I already have many pages on the site, and with pages, the permalinks are working fine, i.e. the permalink ends with the name of the page.

    jannmirch

    (@jannmirch)

    Lutetia, hopefully this is working for you now, but your permalinks should not have a space between “post” and “name” it should be “%postname%”.

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