praemon guy

Ok,

Now that I’m starting to figure this out: when I click on “editor” in the appearance tab, the fresh news child theme coding comes up. This is what it says:

/*
Theme Name: Fresh News Child
Description: Child theme for the WooThemes "Fresh News" theme
Author: William Snider
Template: freshnews
*/

@import url("../freshnews/style.css");

/* removes "comments off" and comment bubble from posts */
.date-comments .fr, #comments {
display:none;
}

/* shortens space above and below logo in header */
#header {
    padding: 0 0 0 10px;
}

/* matches header height with background image height, to show all of bgr image */
#header {
height: 160px;
}

/* removes page titles
.page .title { display:none } */

/* removes "subscribe: posts / comments" from top nav */
#top .subscribe {
    display: none;
}

/* removes tags from after posts */
.tags {
display:none;
}

/* aligns featured post text vertically with top of featured image */
.featuredpost .entry p {
    padding-top: 8px;
}

/* shortens space between featured post title and excerpt, inclusive of the date and 1px divider */
.post .date-comments {
	height: 20px;
}

/* centers widget titles */
.widget h3 {
text-align:center;
}

body #gform_wrapper_1 .top_label .gfield_label {
width: 110px;
}

body #gform_wrapper_1 .gfield_description {
padding-top: 0px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
}

So if I just delete the “/* removes “comments off” and comment bubble from posts */
.date-comments .fr, #comments {
display:none;
}” part, will it replace the comments box?

First, no the theme doesn’t have any options for comments whatsoever. This is the them I’m using: FRESH NEWS CHILD FRESH NEWS 3.2.1 FRAMEWORK 5.5.1

As for switching to the TwentyTwelve theme, comments do appear there.

Is it the child theme that’s disrupting everything?