Want to add comment thread for registered users

when you add or edit a post or page, you can enable comments for that page/post at the bottom of the page.

Having said that – most themes have built in commenting for posts but not pages.
So if yours doesn’t have a comment form for pages, you will need to add some code to make it display.
open your theme’s page.php and add this line right after the_content() call – always back up 1st

<?php comments_template(); ?>

also, look in the dashboard under
Settings -> Discussion
and make sure you have checked users must be registered and logged in to comment.

I was hoping this woule be really straight forward…BUT:

Please have a look at the code, and see if you still think that should paste in there. Thanks!!!

code moderated

Maybe a forum would be best given our layout. How difficult is that? And users must be registered to post…???

hi – use
pastebin.com
to post code
I would need the theme’s page.php to check the code

you can use a forum plugin, also
https://simple-press.com/
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/forum-server/

I’ll be glad to send you the page.php…

https://pastebin.com/UPHqhWrh

find this block

<?php else : ?>
    <div id="left-col" class="column grid_8 rowleft">
    	<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
        <h2 class="hdr_<? the_title() ?>" title="<? the_title(); ?>"><? the_title(); ?></h2>
    	<div id="post-<? the_ID() ?>" class="post">
		<?php the_content(__('(more...)')); ?>

put
<?php comments_template(); ?>
immediately after that
of course, always back up 1st

Hi-

The comments are there, but only if I go to a post that I created within the admin area, and click view post. I guess that the theme my designer used is not displaying the links and comment “pieces”.

I want to keep the theme we have, because it’s way cool. Is there a standard page.php code I can compare to, to see what might be missing?

Thank you very much for your help…

Jim