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1. lightfoot33
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I currently am working on a site that I already created a comments.php file for that I want to appear on all the single.php pages. It does this without any problems. I can also call to it from the home/index page using the following line of code:
   <?php global $withcomments; $withcomments = 1; comments_template( '', true ); ?>

   My questions is this: On the home page, I don't want the reply box to show. I only want the comments (if there are any) to show up. To accomplish this, I created and additional file called comments-noreply.php (similar to comments.php) but I can't figure out how to call to it from the home page. I tried the following code, but it didn't work:

   <?php global $withcomments; $withcomments = 1; comments_template( TEMPLATEPATH . '/comments-noreply.php', true ); ?>

   I think I am close, but obviously I am still missing something.

   Can anyone please advise how to call to an alternate comments template from the index file?

2. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comments_template

   as i read the docu, i would try without the TEMPLATEPATH

3. lightfoot33
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks alchymyth. I tried it without the TEMPLATEPATH, without the leading backslash, and a variety of other combination I saw suggested on this forum, but none of them worked :(

   I might end up waving the white flag on this one as I am completely stumped.

4. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 1 year ago #

   a few questions:

   - any error messages?

   - what is showing on the front page when you are using the alternative comments template:
   -- the normal comments with the input form?
   -- no comments?

   - do the comments show if you are using the normal comments template on the front page (with the $withcomments code)?

   - does the call of the alternative comments form work if you use it in single.php?

   - there is the possibility of plugins interfering - have you tried to deactivate all plugins to see if it is working?

5. lightfoot33
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks alchymyth for the additional questions. I had tried all the above and when I realized it wasn't working on the single.php either, I was further convinced it had something to do with the TEMPLATEPATH on this host. I ended up running an "echo TEMPLATEPATH" to see if there was something I was missing and it had to do with the / before the comments-noreply.php

   Such a big headache for such a small fix, but it's working now. Thanks for your help.

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