Also, there is no The_Loop in this index, not applicable. I also stuck this into my index,
<?php comments_popup_link('No comments yet', '1 comment so far',
'% comments so far (is that a lot?)', 'comments-link', 'Comments are
off for this post'); ?>
without any success. It doesn’t show up at all.
As an example, in the WordPress Default theme, in wp-content/themes/default/index.php, the reference to the Template Tag, comments_popup_link is what causes readers to be offered a link to comment. But that template tag must be in The Loop so you may want to create a loop, even if showing only one post.
Resources:
Stepping Into Templates
Stepping Into Template Tags
Template Hierarchy
<?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=30&showposts=10"); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
<span style="font-size:18px;"><b><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></b></span><br /><br />
<div class="date">
<p><b><?php the_time('g:i A'); ?></b> on <?php the_time('D M j Y'); ?></p>
</div>
<br />
<?php the_content(__('Read This Article »'));?>
<br clear="all"/>
<?php comments_popup_link('No comments yet', '1 comment so far',
'% comments so far (is that a lot?)', 'comments-link', 'Comments are
off for this post'); ?>
<div class="hppostmeta">
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
Again, it doesn’t show anything. It’s as if the code is totally ignored while in the post enumeration loop.
UPDATE: I added the code into the loop and what it does show is No Comments, through home.php.
When you click on the “No Comments Yet” link, which is linked to #respond, it takes you to the full article as if you had clicked “read more”.
OK fine, so then we would have to actually read the full article (via index.php) to make a comment.
Then in index, I added the
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>#comments"><?php comments_number('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></a>
for enumarating comments in a single post.
That creates the %permalink%/#comments.
Guess what. %permalink%/#comments does NOTHING. Why is there still no comments section show? Where is the comments section supposed to be?
SUCCESS.
For some reason, my theme was missing
<div class="comments">
<h4>Comments</h4>
<?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?>
</div>
in the index.php
(@arrakistor)
17 years, 5 months ago
The theme I used seem to not have a comments link. I searched around and added one into index. It wouldn’t appear. I checked the post to make sure comments are allowed, and they are. I checked to make sure I have a comments.php file, and I do.
I did some more searching and found out how to add them to a single post:
Well now the link shows up, but when I click on it, it does absolutely nothing whatsoever.
Help?