Title: Comments Do Not Work
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comments Do Not Work

 *  [tss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tss/)
 * (@tss)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-do-not-work/)
 * When I click the Comments link the page opens to a page with no information at
   the bottom for comments. I know everything is turned on, but it will not work.
 * Why is this doing this?
 * Please help.
 * Thanks,
 * tss

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-do-not-work/#post-366766)
 * The information is there:
    [http://colossusofcomedy.com/?p=22#respond](http://colossusofcomedy.com/?p=22#respond)
   it just says: “You must be logged in to post a comment.”
 * I never register to blogs, so I couldn’t try it out…
 *  Thread Starter [tss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tss/)
 * (@tss)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-do-not-work/#post-366769)
 * Actually I was talking about my other Site, [http://seriousfix.com/](http://seriousfix.com/)…
   it is pretty much a Site of potty humor and reviews and stuff. Pretty brutal.
   But I would like the comments to work.
 * Thanks for checking my comedy Site. That one I know works.
 * Sorry about the confusion.
 * tss
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-do-not-work/#post-366836)
 * There is more than the missing comments: in the single post view the whole footer
   area is gone and you have an “unfinished” webpage – the validator claioms several
   unclosed div tags in that view (while only one on the main page).
 * I’d check if the call for the comments template is present in the single.php 
   file or index.php, depending on the structure of the theme.
 *  [wmt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wmt/)
 * (@wmt)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-do-not-work/#post-367058)
 * Moshu, I’m having the same kind of problem. My boyfriend’s blog is on main.php
   and not index.php ([http://www.whistlemytune.com/alex](http://www.whistlemytune.com/alex))–
   because he’s using iframes. The comments link doesn’t include main.php, and therefore
   just opens index.php in the iframe already present. How can I get the comments
   link to use alex/main.php?
 * Thanks in advance.
 * Bekah
    -xxx-
 *  Thread Starter [tss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tss/)
 * (@tss)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-do-not-work/#post-367135)
 * I downloaded the theme again, only the updated version and now it works.
 * Thank you very much.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-do-not-work/#post-367138)
 * wmt,
    I don’t know anything about (i)frames, so if the following doesn’t work,
   don’t blame me 🙂 [I think (almost) everything can be done without frames, not
   to mention they hide your content from searcg engines…] Anyway, your main problem
   seems to be that `main.php` is not a valid template file name in the WP structure,
   so the WP engine is just ignoring it. See more details in [Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy).
   If WP doesn’t find a specific template, it will fall back to the index. I’d try
   to set up a single.php template which WP would use to display single posts AND
   the comments template included in it. See how it is done in other templates. 
   It might work…

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 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-do-not-work/#post-367138)
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