leave a comment

When I make a post I uncheck if it appears in screen options. When I click send there it is ‘leave a comment’, no matter what theme I use.

from this remark, it is not clear what and where you actually ticked a box:

‘screen options’ is only to show/hide the actual ‘discussion’ field below the post/page editor.

to allow/disallow comments, you have to tick the boxes in this ‘discussion’ field.

Hya,

At the end of the posts there used to be ‘allow trackback’ allow comments, thats not there any more.

I have done everything to eliminate the words but its not happening but why when one older WP is not leaving a comment, same version the new install of WP does.

I have said no comments, I dropped down the screen options. In my old WP katecorner I need do nothing else once no comments have been setup.

Thanks anyway alcymyth. Nobody can do anything, its all done what can be done as far as it goes, unless a comments.php file can be edited.

Thanks very much for your reply.

Ok, I found where the allow comments is via screen options. I can try a new post showing that but its already not ticked in my earlier new post so I don’#t know if it will work in a new one..going to see what happens now.

Nope,

This is stupid…unticked comments, still no joy.

you can check all template files, and remove any code related to comments;

the most common are:
comments_template()
(in single.php, page.php, loop.php …)
and
comments_popup_link()
(in index.php, archive.php, loop.php …)

Which Theme are you currently using: TwentyTen or Cold Blue Revolution?

I have tried two themes and they are both the same ‘leave a comment’.

At the moment its on Twenty Ten..default.

On cold blue theme I have removed comment.php and in the three styles, took all the comments from the style sheets. Any code that has comment has also been removed.

I should not have this problem. Everything is available to prevent comments without touching any code.

In the screen options comments is not available to prevent comments every post but in any event I have said no comments in settings.

As for

I have tried two themes and they are both the same ‘leave a comment’.

At the moment its on Twenty Ten..default.

Okay, let’s start there. Where specifically are you seeing:

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On the blog posts index? On the single post view? On an archive index?

In “loop.php”, look for this code:

<span class="comments-link"><?php comments_popup_link( __( 'Leave a comment', 'twentyten' ), __( '1 Comment', 'twentyten' ), __( '% Comments', 'twentyten' ) ); ?></span>

I believe that is the source of the text you’re wanting to remove.

Note: you will need to remove/modify that code in several places in “loop.php”.

Here:

<?php /* How to display posts of the Gallery format. The gallery category is the old way. */ ?>

	<?php if ( function_exists( 'get_post_format' ) && 'gallery' == get_post_format( $post->ID ) ) :

Here:

<?php /* How to display posts of the Aside format. The asides category is the old way. */ ?>

	<?php elseif ( ( function_exists( 'get_post_format' ) && 'aside' == get_post_format( $post->ID ) ) || in_category( _x( 'asides', 'asides category slug', 'twentyten' ) )  ) :

Here:

<?php /* How to display all other posts. */ ?>

	<?php else : ?>

Look in the code for each one of those conditionals, and find the comments_popup_link() function.

In the screen options comments is not available to prevent comments every post

again – the ‘screen options’ do not control the comments –
they only control the visibility of the ‘discussion’ field below the post/page editor (on the ‘edit post’ or ‘edit page’ page).

screenshot: https://img545.imageshack.us/i/discussionfield.jpg/

there you need to disable the comments.

I have done the first deletion which changed nothing,

<span class=”comments-link”><?php comments_popup_link( __( ‘Leave a comment’, ‘twentyten’ ), __( ‘1 Comment’, ‘twentyten’ ), __( ‘% Comments’, ‘twentyten’ ) ); ?></span>

Tomorrow I will edit the below:

Note: you will need to remove/modify that code in several places in “loop.php”.

Chip the leave a comment is on the blog post . The page where after you click publish you go to look at what you wrote.

alchymyth; we were thinking that we had to uncheck there in screen options to rectify the comment.

I *will be back tomorrow…hopefully with a result.

Thanks very much both of you. I really am grateful for your valuble help.

Looking at the screenshot, thats what I had been used to before the new version, now its missing when you make a new post.

So in screen options what there is is discussion, you tick that and your option to allow comes into view.

At that point there is no comments in the screen options to tick/untick.The allow/disallow comments does not work on the new install of WordPress.

On katecorner WP its not a problem.

https://jungaling.com/katecorner/

Goodnight and thanks.

Bless you Chip Bennett!