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1. rbr451
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I know it's probably simple, but none of my blogs default with the comment form showing. How do I turn it on to show under all posts?

2. Mr E
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   When you go to a post, you should see a check box at the bottom for allow comments.. Oddly this is normally checked by default.

   What ver_ wordpress are you running?

3. rbr451
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm using 2.7

   I see the checkbox and it's enabled. This puts text link at the bottom of my post allowing comments, but I want to show the comment form by default. The form would be more obvious and encourage more comments.

4. Mr E
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Its possible its the theme, change to the default theme and see if the problem persists.

5. rbr451
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I tried the default theme, but it is the same. Also, I have several sites, each with different themes and they are all the same. No comment form.

6. Mr E
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Ran 3 installs in my test environment from 2.7.1, not having this problem.

   Go to /wp-admin/options-discussion.php and make sure the ' Allow people to post comments on the article' is checked.. ?

7. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Which pages are you talking about? The blog's index and/or category pages or the single post page?

8. rbr451
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   The problem is on any page, but mostly I'm concerned about my main page that shows all the recent posts.
   The "allow posts" is checked and people CAN leave posts - if they click on the text link at the bottom of the post. What I want is for the comment form to appear by default, without having to go to it.

9. rbr451
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Here's a couple sites of mine:

   http://www.sudokook.com
   http://www.unboundedpower.com

10. esmi
    Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
    Posted 3 years ago #

    The comment form only appears on a single post page. So, although there's no comment form displayed for the first post on http://www.sudokook.com/, if you click the post's title and go to http://www.sudokook.com/simple-trick-solve-sudoku-part-2/, the comment form is there at the bottom of the page.

11. rbr451
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Thanks, that helps, but is there a way to get it to appear on the front page?

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