Title: Comments not working…
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Comments not working…

 *  [dugma78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dugma78/)
 * (@dugma78)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-26/)
 * Hi folks,
 * I’ve been using WordPress for a couple months and have ignored the fact that 
   readers cannot add comments. I’m now ready to tackle the problem.
 * My blog’s at [http://www.seedlibrary.org/wp](http://www.seedlibrary.org/wp).
 * When you click to leave a comment, the browser tries to load (for example) [http://www.seedlibrary.org/wp/?p=98#respond](http://www.seedlibrary.org/wp/?p=98#respond),
   but to my eyes it looks like it’s just loading the post (i.e., /wp/?p=98). I 
   don’t see an anchor for “respond,” so I’m assuming it’s supposed to trigger something(
   the pop up comments, perhaps?) that it’s not triggering.
 * I rigged this theme up myself rather haphazardly, so perhaps I am missing a crucial
   template file or something.
 * Any advice?
 * Doug

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 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-26/#post-1053799)
 * Hi
 * Something is not correct in your template. When I am on your homepage and click
   on the title The Fickleness of Spring, I am supposed to see that post alone on
   a page by itself with the comments below it and the comment entry form below 
   that. Instead I am seeing your blog page with a series of posts on it and no 
   comments.
 * I can’t tell for certain what’s going on, of course, but I would guess you are
   missing the template single.php from your theme folder, and that WP is using 
   either index.php or archive.php to display multiple posts on what should be one
   post on a page.
 * This relates to your comments issue, because comments are only displayed on single.
   php, and if you don’t have that template, you’re not going to see any comments
   or the comments entry form.
 * If you don’t have that page, my suggestion is borrow the code from the default
   WordPress theme, including comments.php and comments-popup.php, and integrate
   them into your theme.
 *  Thread Starter [dugma78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dugma78/)
 * (@dugma78)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-26/#post-1053956)
 * A-ha! You were exactly right! Thanks so much. If you’d like some free seeds for
   your help, drop me a line with your address and a couple packs you’d like via
   the contact form on the website.
 * Thanks a lot,
 * Doug
 *  [lutetia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lutetia/)
 * (@lutetia)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-26/#post-1054176)
 * I have the exact same situation as presented here, i.e. when you click on the
   post title, you don’t get a separate page for just that post, and no comment 
   box appears. The only difference is that I DO have a single.php file in my theme.
   Any ideas on what could be causing it not to work properly?
 * I just noticed my post permalinks are weird, i.e. I only have two posts so far
   and they both end like this “/archives/%post%20name%/”
    Could this be the issue?
 * In my permalink settings, it’s set to custom structure : /archives/%post name%;
   
   I’ve also got All in One SEO plugin installed.
 * I already have many pages on the site, and with pages, the permalinks are working
   fine, i.e. the permalink ends with the name of the page.
 *  [jannmirch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jannmirch/)
 * (@jannmirch)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-not-working-26/#post-1054242)
 * Lutetia, hopefully this is working for you now, but your permalinks should not
   have a space between “post” and “name” it should be “%postname%”.

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