Hi Lauren,
I am not quite sure how this got into my plugins support forum, but perhaps I can help anyway.
I think the issue may be that you deleted the comments.php contents. Do you have an un-edited version of the theme files to put back, so your comments.php is back to normal? If it is one of the core themes (twentyten, twentytwelve, etc) you can get the files in the wordpress download from wordpress.org.
If you do not want comments to be available on pages there are two things you can do:
To Disable Comments for a Specific Page
In the control panel go to the ‘Pages’ menu and when hovering over the page you want to disable comments for click ‘Quick Edit’. You can now uncheck the ‘Allow Comments’ box.
To Prevent new Posts/Pages from being Comment Enabled
In the control panel go to the ‘Settings’ page, then ‘Discussion’, then uncheck the ‘Allow people to post comments on new articles’ box.
Thanks-I realised that I had posted in a completely random section-sorry!
I did both of those things which did not work and is why i ended up deleting the section.I have got the original version saved. I suppose i’ll just have to find a way of manipulating it.
Lauren
Hi Lauren,
No problem at all. Sorry my input wasn’t helpful then!
If it was a custom theme, it might not have been made with compatibility for turning the comments on/off. In which case customising the files, or using a different theme are the answers.
If you are just getting a blank white page it means that PHP has had an error but is not set to display errors. You may have an error log file somewhere, or be able to turn displaying errors on, which would help work out what is causing the problem.
Thanks Peter,
It was indeed a custom theme. As I deleted the PHP entirely I fully expect that that is the issue. I’ll put it back in and i’m sure that there will be some form of short code available somewhere. I will have a look in the error file too though to double check if this is the issue.
Lauren
Good luck getting it working as you want Lauren!
