2 days have passed without anyone answering – time to expand upon my original post.
I can write code parrot-fashion by copy/pasting chunks that work but I have no understanding of what I need or where to find it. I know I can create comments from the control panel but people viewing the site don’t have the option to leave a comment. The site is here if that helps people to understand what I mean.
Regarding not being able to view existing comments, I would guess that this is tied into whatever code I am lacking for leaving comments.
I also discovered a third issue today involving Facebook. For some reason whenever I link to the blog on Facebook it uses a paragraph from the sidebar as default text – I’ve tried changing that but it hasn’t had any effect. Help on setting a different text for Facebook to show would be appreciated too.
Jaque
(@jaquethay)
15 years, 1 month ago
Over the past few months I’ve cobbled together a custom theme for my website with much help from online guides. I discovered last week though that viewers no longer have the option to leave comments – I suspect that I’ve missed out a chunk of code somewhere and although I have a rough idea about what does what I don’t understand how each line of code functions or why which makes it very difficult for me to work out what I need to add still.
I also noticed earlier tonight that existing comments that have been left are not viewable under the new theme. Each entry displays the number of comments it has recieved but when you click to view the comments nothing happens. I suspect this is related to my first issue – I’ve not included a piece of code.
My coding skills were basic in the mid-90s and haven’t improved since… so any help people can offer would be greatly appreciated. I can supply code from my index and css files if that’s of use for this.
Jaque