Comment form misplaced

Use a very basic starter theme, like the one from underscores.me for guidance on proper template structure. It’s not the only way, but it does work. Personally, I’d build my theme on top of the starter theme. Saves me a lot of effort developing generic boiler plate code. But even if you’re starting from nothing, it can be a good example to follow.

Something’s wrong with that form you don’t want anyway. As it’s going away, it’s not worth finding the problem. The form below the footer at least displays to me like it should for a non-logged in user. Comment form is usually generated by calling comment_form(). If such a call is not evident, you may need to look at a template part, like comments.php or similar.

Content normally appears on the page in the order it was output. While it’s possible for CSS to reorder elements, it’s better if they naturally occur in the order you want to start with. You typically don’t want comment content in the actual footer, but as part of the post template like single.php or similar. Conversely, identifying code on a template responsible for certain output can be assisted by identifying more recognizable code generating output before or after the questionable content.

As to comments assigned to the wrong post, if you are using the first form which has a problem, stop doing that 🙂 It needs to go away. The version below the footer ought to be relocated, it looks more promising. If you continue to have trouble even with the more promising form, it is often due to the global $post object having the wrong post due to a secondary query on the template where its query data was not reset with wp_reset_postdata().

Following the underscres.me model, any comments and the comment form appear by calling comments_template(). This loads in the comments.php template, which outputs any comments with wp_list_comments() and outputs the comment form with comment_form(). It looks like you’ve called comments_template() from the footer.php template, or it’s on your main template file (apparently content-single.php) after the call to get_footer(). It’s in the wrong place, where ever it is. Find it and remove it.

It seems you have a call to comment_form() in the right place (the first comment form), where the comments list is missing. Replace this with comments_template(), assuming your theme has a comments.php template just like the underscores.me theme does.

If you still do not find this helpful, my apologies. I’m trying 🙂 In that case maybe it would be helpful to see the code you have. Don’t post it here though. Please post your template code at pastebin.com or a gist.github.com and just provide the links here.