Title: Comments form does not show up – Permalink Problem?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Comments form does not show up – Permalink Problem?

 *  [sherrigd45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sherrigd45/)
 * (@sherrigd45)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-form-does-not-show-up-permalink-problem/)
 * I am having problems with the comments not showing.
 * I just upgraded to the latest WP version. And when I set the permalinks to be
   the “Custom Structure” and put in: /%postname%/ the comments form disappeared.
 * There was also mention of a missing .htaccess file – which is hidden on a Mac,
   and doesn’t show up in the FTP, even though the settings are set to allow viewing
   of the file once uploaded.
 * I don’t know anything about the code here. But it the desired permalink address
   does work as I wanted it to (displayed at the top in the edit section).
 * It’s just that now the comments form has disappeared.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [jenniferwilhelm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenniferwilhelm/)
 * (@jenniferwilhelm)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-form-does-not-show-up-permalink-problem/#post-1029629)
 * I am having this exact same problem… I enabled permalinks and now my comments
   form does not show up when it redirects to the “/%postname%/#respond” page. This
   is only happening on my custom template that I made using WP tags – it seems 
   to work fine when I use the default template index.php file.
 * I do have an .htaccess file in the root directory, but all it has in it is information
   about PHP5 – do I need to add something else?
 *  [John H](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbloghost/)
 * (@wpbloghost)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-form-does-not-show-up-permalink-problem/#post-1029632)
 * Which host are you using?
 * When you set the custom permalink structure, do your urls all work ok with the
   new url structure?

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-form-does-not-show-up-permalink-problem/#post-1029632)
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