Title: Comments stopped working
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comments stopped working

 *  [superberri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/superberri/)
 * (@superberri)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-stopped-working/)
 * I just setup my blog yesterday and everything was running smoothly. I modified
   a few files trying to get Alex King’s Wp_Grins working (even though it’s not 
   supposed to work with 1.5 yet I don’t think…) So it gave me errors and I removed
   the wp_grins stuff. My comments still worked after that. But this morning I logged
   on and tried clicking around for comments but all it does is add the “#comments”
   at the end of the post uri in the address bar and hop down a few lines where 
   the comments box would normally be. So, in short, the comments form is not showing
   up. I’ve installed a fresh copy of WP as well to attempt to fix the problem.
 * My Site: [http://www.strawberriz.net/wp](http://www.strawberriz.net/wp)

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-stopped-working/#post-222506)
 * Grins does work in 1.5.1.2 / 1.5.1 / 1.5
 * Check your theme has all the correct files ?
 *  Thread Starter [superberri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/superberri/)
 * (@superberri)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-stopped-working/#post-222508)
 * Yep. I redownloaded and reuploaded everything.
 *  [oriecat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oriecat/)
 * (@oriecat)
 * [20 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-stopped-working/#post-222520)
 * I think this is probably a missing template tag, not a problem with wp-grins.
   Check and make sure that your template is calling for the comment file.
 * <?php comments_template(); ?>
 *  Thread Starter [superberri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/superberri/)
 * (@superberri)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-stopped-working/#post-222534)
 * Yes its calling the comments but its just not showing up…
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-stopped-working/#post-222545)
 * 1. Does it work with all plugins deactivated?
 * 2. Does it work in the Default or Classic Theme?
 * 3. Does it work in the Default or Classic Theme with all plugins deactivated?
 *  Thread Starter [superberri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/superberri/)
 * (@superberri)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-stopped-working/#post-222629)
 * Nope it still doesn’t after all that… Arg.
 * I think I may just completely wipe everything wordpress related off my site (
   backing up the databases of course) and then see if that works.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-stopped-working/#post-222630)
 * Hmmm… there is something wrong with your permalinks or some other settings. Why
   is that when clicking on a post’s title it takes you to a _monthly archive_ instead
   of the single post view? I assume not having the comment form displayed is related
   to this.
 *  [christined](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christined/)
 * (@christined)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-stopped-working/#post-222631)
 * I had something like this happen – the theme I was using, was using the index.
   php template to show a single post. Since index.php doesn’t display the list 
   of comments, the comments weren’t displaying. When I dropped a single.php into
   my theme (which does display the list of comments), everything was good again.

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