jetshack

ok… then the next thing that I would try is to copy in the comment code from a known good index.php file.

try replacing your comments.php and comments-popup.php files with files from a different theme just to see if it’ll work. If it does then you know the problem is within those files.

If it doesn’t work then it’s something inside the call.

maybe.

this isn’t perfect… but… you can change the cookie timeout by

go to
wp-includes/pluggable.php
find the line which looks something like

if ( $remember )
$expire = time() + 31536000;
else
$expire = 0;

change the expire time from 31536000 (which equals 365 days in seconds) to the desired ammount of seconds

that’s going to change the timeout for your cookies sitewide… not just for that page.

link to site?

do you have your options set to allow comments and if so do you have a call to the comments in your page.php (or index.php) file?

you’ve put the background image into your body callout (also I looked at your 1×875 img and didn’t see anything…) and then set the “main” container indide the body div…

try putting the background iamge into the main div.

looks like you’re on the right track…

(sorry didn’t get back sooner… dont’ check in on weekends.)

my bet is that you have a file called page.php in your theme folder which doesn’t make a call to the sidebar… you could delete that file and then it would use the index.php file as the template.