I’ve solved it! Am using an online image optimiser and that seems to be the trick :0)
Tara, thank you so so much for your reply, I truly appreciate it. I did what you suggested with plug ins and it made no difference. Then I changed the theme, and voila, there is the comments box on each page.
However, I also now see that there is a “leave a reply” on my 2012 theme and that makes sense since a large comments box under each blog would look messy. I have tested it out and it seems to work fine.
Thanks again for your help. I do have another issue that I’m still trying to figure out also – all my photos are showing with a sort of pink veil across them, regardless of what size they are, where the photo comes from (I’ve tried from my DSLR and from the web). Any ideas?
Karen