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1. jrp8170
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hello,

   I am "managing" (I use this lightly) a website for our booster club. I would like to add user comments and or questions on one of our pages, but I am not sure how to do that.

   Can anyone give me some suggestions? Our site is http://www.sangerfootball.com

   Thanks!

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   when you add or edit a post or page, you can enable comments for that page/post at the bottom of the page.

   Having said that - most themes have built in commenting for posts but not pages.
   So if yours doesn't have a comment form for pages, you will need to add some code to make it display.
   open your theme's page.php and add this line right after the_content() call - always back up 1st

   <?php comments_template(); ?>

   also, look in the dashboard under
   Settings -> Discussion
   and make sure you have checked users must be registered and logged in to comment.

3. jrp8170
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I was hoping this woule be really straight forward...BUT:

   Please have a look at the code, and see if you still think that should paste in there. Thanks!!!

   code moderated

4. jrp8170
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Maybe a forum would be best given our layout. How difficult is that? And users must be registered to post...???

5. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   hi - use
   pastebin.com
   to post code
   I would need the theme's page.php to check the code

   you can use a forum plugin, also
   http://simple-press.com/
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forum-server/

6. jrp8170
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I'll be glad to send you the page.php...

   http://pastebin.com/UPHqhWrh

7. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   find this block
   

   <?php else : ?>
       <div id="left-col" class="column grid_8 rowleft">
       	<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
           <h2 class="hdr_<? the_title() ?>" title="<? the_title(); ?>"><? the_title(); ?></h2>
       	<div id="post-<? the_ID() ?>" class="post">
   		<?php the_content(__('(more...)')); ?>

   put
   <?php comments_template(); ?>
   immediately after that
   of course, always back up 1st

8. jrp8170
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hi-

   The comments are there, but only if I go to a post that I created within the admin area, and click view post. I guess that the theme my designer used is not displaying the links and comment "pieces".

   I want to keep the theme we have, because it's way cool. Is there a standard page.php code I can compare to, to see what might be missing?

   Thank you very much for your help...

   Jim

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