Are these older posts? If you enabled comments by going to Settings → Discussion, that will only affect any new posts that you create. If you want to enable comments on your previous posts:
- From the dashboard, go to Posts → All Posts.
- Click the checkbox labeled Title, and that should select all of the posts on the page.
- On the Bulk Actions dropdown, select Edit and then click the Apply button.
- A section will open up, labeled BULK EDIT. In the Comments dropdown, select Allow.
- Click the blue Update button.
- Move to the next page of posts and repeat, until you’ve covered all of your posts.
All of your posts should then have comments enabled.
My comments are indeed enabled, however the comment section is inconsistently showing up. Some readers are able to see it and can leave comments, but others can not see it at all, not even comments left by other readers. I can not figure out what is going on with that. Any thoughts?
Might be related to your caching plugin. Have you tried clearing the cache on it and checking the settings or deactivating it to see if it’s causing this problem?
BTW, they do show up fine for me.
Thanks! I just cleared the cache, so we will see if that helps. Glad you could see the comments, because when I go to the site directly, I can’t see them. So strange…
Might also be a browser issue – what browser are you using? Have you tried another one and/or tried clearing the cache and cookies in your browser?
I am using Firefox, but I have also checked it on my android tablet, as well as the IPad.
What is your site address?
Interesting that your blog page only displays one post per page. Now, you aren’t getting the blog pages mixed up with the post pages, are you? That is, you will not see a comment section on a blog page, only on the post pages. For example, this page and this page look the same, because they have the same content, but the first page isn’t going to show a comment section because it’s actually the blog page and not the post page (look at the URL of each). Usually, a blog page will show more than one post excerpt (I think the default in WordPress is 10), but you can set it to whatever value you want), so it’s usually easy to tell a blog page apart from an actual blog post.
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11 years, 2 months ago
I just installed the Sugar and Spice theme and my posts do not show comments at the bottom of each page. I have enabled the comments, however there is no where to leave them.