That’s intentional now, Pages default to comments disabled.
Comments turned off on pages – All new pages that you create will have comments turned off. Keep discussions to your blog, right where they’re supposed to happen.
WordPress 4.3 “Billie”
What the… talk about inconvenient…
At least make a function to allow user to disable or allow comments by default at posts OR pages!!
Not make it so it is disabled by default FOR ALL USERS!!
That’s not an improvement but an annoyance!
There were no complaints during the months of public development and testing, but I see your point.
I recommend reporting it at https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/reporting-bugs/
(@silvalau)
10 years, 7 months ago
So… after updating our blog to ver. 4.3
I noticed the “Reply” and “Quick Edit” and the Comments Dashboard works now but there’s a new bug.
Under SETTINGS > DISCUSSION > Default article settings
I have enabled:
But whenever I tried to “Add a New Page”, the Allow Comments and Pingbacks are both unchecked.
I have to manually select them every time I Publish a New Page.