Is there a way of making the comments appear underneath the relative post?
Where? On the single post view? Most themes do this by default.
In categories where the post is placed. I would have thought that any comments would appear directly under the post but they seem to have their own area. I have recent comments list on a side bar but nothing other than the title to link it back to the original post. My old blogger account listed the comments under the post itself.
My old blogger account listed the comments under the post itself.
The vast majority of WordPress themes already list the comments on the single post pages – such as Twenty Ten.
Mine doesn’t hence my question. I don’t want to change the theme I have. BTW, Twenty Ten does what I want.
make sure you have comments enabled.
the ‘moonbeams’ theme demo says ‘comments are closed’ below the post; this is an indicator that comments code is provided in the theme.
i have the same impression from a very brief look into the code of the theme; single.php and page.php have the ‘comments_template()’ code, and comments.php seems ok.
can you post a link to your site, to illustrate what is showing or what is missing?
if in doubt, disable all plugins and see if that changes the comment situation.
Where is the comments enabled control? Is it under discussion settings?
Link – http://trinder.org/blog
there are two levels of comments control:
general under ‘settings’ ‘discussion’;
and for each post/page, below the post/page editor.
(if this does not show, click ‘screen options’ near the top right of the ‘edit post’ or ‘edit page’ page, and tick the ‘discussion’ box there; then go down to below the editor to find the ‘discussion’ area.)
however, if i click on a post title on the front page (for example ‘Another Vulcano..’), it leads me to a single post, where the comment form is clearly visible.
(the same behaviour as in twenty ten)
what else on top of that are you expecting or trying to achieve?
btw:
comments and comment forms are in wordpress by default disabled on ‘multi-post’ pages such as the front page or archive pages.
I was concerned that it takes some digging to find the comments/post relationship from the front page.
however, if i click on a post title on the front page (for example ‘Another Vulcano..’), it leads me to a single post, where the comment form is clearly visible.
(the same behaviour as in twenty ten)
I see what you mean. Yes this is what I was hoping would appear on the front page.
You have chosen a theme that doesn’t provide a direct link to the comments (and indicate if there are any comments) for each post on these archive pages. If you are comfortable editing your theme’s template files, you could add this in yourself:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comments_popup_link
You have chosen a theme that doesn’t provide a direct link to the comments (and indicate if there are any comments) for each post on these archive pages. If you are comfortable editing your theme’s template files, you could add this in yourself:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comments_popup_link
I would be happy to give it go if I could understand where to post it and what part I actually need. Does this go in stylesheet and if so where?
No – it goes into your theme’s archive template files: index.php, category.php, archive.php etc.
