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1. arrakistor
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   The theme I used seem to not have a comments link. I searched around and added one into index. It wouldn't appear. I checked the post to make sure comments are allowed, and they are. I checked to make sure I have a comments.php file, and I do.

   I did some more searching and found out how to add them to a single post:
   

   <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>#comments"><?php comments_number('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></a>

   Well now the link shows up, but when I click on it, it does absolutely nothing whatsoever.

   Help?

2. arrakistor
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Also, there is no The_Loop in this index, not applicable. I also stuck this into my index,

   <?php comments_popup_link('No comments yet', '1 comment so far',
   '% comments so far (is that a lot?)', 'comments-link', 'Comments are
   off for this post'); ?>

   without any success. It doesn't show up at all.

3. arrakistor
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   bump

4. arrakistor
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   TTT! Still no help?

5. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 3 years ago #

   As an example, in the WordPress Default theme, in wp-content/themes/default/index.php, the reference to the Template Tag, comments_popup_link is what causes readers to be offered a link to comment. But that template tag must be in The Loop so you may want to create a loop, even if showing only one post.

   Resources:
   Stepping Into Templates
   Stepping Into Template Tags
   Template Hierarchy

6. arrakistor
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   <?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=30&showposts=10"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
   			<span style="font-size:18px;"><b><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></b></span><br /><br />
   
   			<div class="date">
   				<p><b><?php the_time('g:i A'); ?></b> on <?php the_time('D M j Y'); ?></p>
   			</div>
   			<br />
   
   			<?php the_content(__('Read This Article &raquo;'));?>
   			<br clear="all"/>
   <?php comments_popup_link('No comments yet', '1 comment so far',
   '% comments so far (is that a lot?)', 'comments-link', 'Comments are
   off for this post'); ?>
   			<div class="hppostmeta">
   
   			</div>
   
   			<?php endwhile; ?>

   Again, it doesn't show anything. It's as if the code is totally ignored while in the post enumeration loop.

7. arrakistor
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   UPDATE: I added the code into the loop and what it does show is No Comments, through home.php.

   When you click on the "No Comments Yet" link, which is linked to #respond, it takes you to the full article as if you had clicked "read more".

   OK fine, so then we would have to actually read the full article (via index.php) to make a comment.

   Then in index, I added the

   <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>#comments"><?php comments_number('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></a>

   for enumarating comments in a single post.

   That creates the %permalink%/#comments.

   Guess what. %permalink%/#comments does NOTHING. Why is there still no comments section show? Where is the comments section supposed to be?

8. arrakistor
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   SUCCESS.

   For some reason, my theme was missing

   <div class="comments">
   
   			<h4>Comments</h4>
   			<?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?>
   
   	</div>

   in the index.php

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