Title: Comments Not Working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Comments Not Working

 *  Resolved [jrbcalendar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrbcalendar/)
 * (@jrbcalendar)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-20/)
 * Using inove 1.2.3 theme for [http://www.johnnyrodgers.com/wordpress](http://www.johnnyrodgers.com/wordpress).
   
   Comments do not work – click on “No comments” to leave a comment, get an http
   404 error. Does not seem that I can edit the various files in the template editor?
 * Have seen some posts re: single post php file… other forum posts suggest changing
   out the comments-popup.php or the comments-post.php files… or doing something
   to the comments db table.
 * I am VERY new at wp – and still learning. Advice much appreciated.
 * ALSO – the WP-POLLS shows on the template – but after the first poll, it is showing
   only results and does not let others participate in the POLLS. Any ideas here?
   Not sure if the problems are related.

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 *  Thread Starter [jrbcalendar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrbcalendar/)
 * (@jrbcalendar)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-20/#post-986292)
 * OK – I figured out that I need to edit files on my host… so that issue is resolved….
   the dashboard template editor shows the files, but does not allow editing apparently?
 * Any way my comment adding problem AND my WP-Poll problem still exist.
 * I am using 2.7 – new blog at [http://www.johnnyrodgers.com/wordpress](http://www.johnnyrodgers.com/wordpress)
   and comments will not work …Have tried several templates to no avail.. I think
   that all the templates do not have separate comments files – so it must be something
   in the comments php files themselves?
 * I get a “webpage can not be found” error http 404.
    The following code for adding
   comments in the single.php file goes to a href #respond acording to the URL….
 * <span class=”comments”>[<?php _e(‘Goto comments’, ‘inove’); ?>](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-20/?output_format=md#comments)
   </span>
    <span class=”addcomment”>[<?php _e(‘Leave a comment’, ‘inove’); ?>](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-20/?output_format=md#respond)
   </span>
 * ALSO – the closest thing to template_comments is this code in the single.php 
   file is :
 * <?php include(‘templates/comments.php’); ?>
 * ANY IDEAS?
 *  Thread Starter [jrbcalendar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrbcalendar/)
 * (@jrbcalendar)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-20/#post-986357)
 * the link that appears when I click on the post to add a comment goes to [http://&#8230](http://&#8230);./
   wordpress/blogpost name/#response .
 * the #response link does not appear to exist. Any thoughts where this link should
   be?
 *  Thread Starter [jrbcalendar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrbcalendar/)
 * (@jrbcalendar)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-20/#post-986371)
 * I finally got set on track. The issue was one that the .htaccess file was not
   created when WordPress was installed.
 * Under SETTINGS is the Permalinks area that is used to identify the URL for your
   blog posts. There are a variety of selections there. Since I am hosting WordPress
   on my own, apparently WP is unable to add or update this area automatically (
   like it does on adding Plugins). So one has to update the .htaccess file yourself.
   NOTE: It does say this cryptically at the bottom of the Permalinks page – but
   for a newbie like me – I just did not get it until I read the ALL ABOUT PERMALINKS
   section of the WP documentation.
 * I created a 1.htaccess file copying the code suggested at the bottom of the Permalinks
   page. Then I ftp’d the file to into my WordPress directory, changed the name 
   to .htaccess … and suddenly I was able to post comments.
 *  [daniellejosh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daniellejosh/)
 * (@daniellejosh)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-20/#post-986433)
 * I am still unclear about what you did to resolve your problem? I am having issues
   with my “Leave a comment” links… on every page EXCEPT my homepage. My website
   is [http://iphonecustoms.com](http://iphonecustoms.com). Could you possibly look
   and see if it is similar to the problem you were having? I am new to WordPress
   also…

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 * Last reply from: [daniellejosh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daniellejosh/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-20/#post-986433)
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