Make “reply to comment” box appear after comment?

Hi Laurie,

There’s no option in the theme. You will need to customize the theme for this. You can also consult with a developer.

Have a good day!

But the “Reply to Comments” works perfectly on my other 4 blogs, which use the exact same theme on the exact same webhost.

Here’s an example of the “Reply to Comments” working perfectly, with the same theme, WordPress version, settings and web host:
https://blossomtips.com/feeling-unwanted-no-one-cares/

What might be causing the difference, do you think?

Thank you!
Laurie

Ok, I figured it out! It’s the new version of Yoast on my new blog that makes the difference. My old blogs must be grandfathered, somehow.

Here’s a couple of links to explain it:

https://yoast.com/testing-yoast-seo-7-0/
The feature that removed ?replytocom variables from URLs. This is a core “feature” that makes it possible to reply to other people’s comments when JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Every comment gets its own link because of this feature, so if you have 100 comments, you get 100 extra links to a post, and search engines have to index every one of these links. This is stupid. So: our feature to remove those is now on by default and doesn’t have a setting anymore. This falls in line with WordPress’ core philosophy: decisions, not options. There is a ticket open to change this behavior in WordPress core too.

And a work-around, which I’m not using:
Version 7 of WordPress SEO by Yoast removes the replytocom variables by default
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/340204/yoast-makes-comment-reply-link-function-output-plain-link-to-comment-instead-of/340208

All good things,
Laurie