Comment Options Not Showing for Individual Posts

Hi,
the comment box is available just in “single” contexts. So in single pages or in single posts, not for posts in post lists.

Hi slathe,
well honestly I don’t think this is a basic capability 😀 For example twentyfifteen doesn’t have it. am I wrong? Which other theme does have the comment boxes, and then the comment lists, after each post in the lists of posts, like the blog, categories and so on?

1. It’s something can be done, maybe with a collapsible section (collapsed by default). But think about a page with 10 posts with each post having like 10 comments, you have to retrieve 100 comments every-time you load the page? A better way is to use AJAX and retrieve the list of comments on demand, just when the user clicks on “Show comments” (see collapsible section), IMHO. So something which can be done, but not “basic” and not trivial 😀 It’s mostly an additional feature.

2. Sorry, dunno 😀 I’m not aware about this.

You’re welcome 😉

Wait, sorry there’s a misunderstanding here 😀
I thought you were talking about showing the comments (list of comments) in post lists (that’s the not “basic” :D), not just the number of comments and “leave a comment” link.
Customizr does have the “number of comments” thing, it has the comment bubble, when comments are open and the post has comments, but yes, it doesn’t have the “leave a comment” link in lists of posts.

If you go here: http://demo.presscustomizr.com/
you can see the post “Post with comments”, with the comment bubble showing “27” (number of comments) and you can click on it.

This option is in Content -> Comments

Hi,
just my opinion:
I don’t agree with this part
“But for a reader looking at a post list there is nothing that will lead to comments”

Comment bubble – small or large (which states “N comments”) – is the theme author’s choice to display the number of comments in post lists. Both of them leads to comments.. If you want to be more explicit you can use the second one and the reader looking at a post list I think will understand is about “comments”, or am I missing something? Do you mean that the reader will not think to click on that anyway whether is the large or the small version?

nothing to say about this one 😀
“.. suggest that leaving a comment is possible”

always talking from a reader point of view in post lists.

Why “leave a comment” in post list has been left out?
Don’t know why, probably was/is not considered primary, and/or maybe nobody has ever asked for that 😀 dunno

I see your points
about 1/2) you have a friend ->
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-comment-bubble-even-with-no-comments?replies=1

3) Yes, with the alternate layout it’s so because the comment bubble is somewhat part of the title, and for aside/status … post formats the title isn’t shown

The only thing I can do is giving you a code to show a “Leave a comment” link next to the post metas in post lists, you should put it in your child-theme functions.php:

add_filter('tc_meta_utility_text', 'my_leave_a_comment', 30);
function my_leave_a_comment( $html ){
  $message =  'Leave a comment';

  if ( ! is_single() && ! post_password_required() && comments_open() )
    $html = sprintf('%3$s | <span class="my-comments-link"><a href="%1$s#respond" title="%2$s">%2$s</a></span>',
                        get_permalink(),
                        $message,
                        $html
                    );

  return $html;
}

Hi slathe, creating a child-theme is pretty straight-forward you can even download the Customizr child-theme. More on this subject here:
http://doc.presscustomizr.com/customizr/creating-child-theme-customizr/

About the last question .. I don’t think there’s a place for that 😀
You can write your suggestions/requests here and I think they will be read and taken in account 😀

Cheers