Making comments stick

  • Resolved j459g

    (@j459g)


    18 years, 3 months ago

    I am a new user of WordPress (started yesterday) but everything is working fine already. Now I have begun to tinker with it, amongst other things to try to have the comments remain visible all the time under the post instead of just disappearing from view when something else is selected. Sure, I can get them back again by clicking on “Comments” but I find that to be something of a drag.

    I am not php-savvy but I have located a section of code in the index.php file of the theme that I am using to get started:

    <p class="feedback">
    <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?> " rel="bookmark" title=" <?php _e('Permanent link to'); ?> <?php the_title(); ?>" class="permalink"> <?php _e('Permalink'); ?></a>

    <?php comments_popup_link(__('Comments'), __('1 Comment'), __('% Comments'), 'commentslink', __('Comments off')); ?>

    <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit'), ' · ', ''); ?>

    Could somebody tell me if I can make the comments stick by changing something in that comments_popup_link command?

    I have searched here for about 15 minutes for “comments” but have not turned up anything relevant. I have also searched the tutorial with the same result. If there is a better search term then that might be a help.

    But any helpful advice will be appreciated!

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  • if I can make the comments stick by changing something in that comments_popup_link command?
    No, you can’t.

    searched here for about 15 minutes
    Only 15 min? ??

    I’m not exactly sure what you’re describing (a link would help). Maybe something here will help:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugins/Comments

    Or here:
    https://wp-plugins.net/

    Thread Starter j459g

    (@j459g)

    No, you can’t.
    OK, thanks, I can’t claim that I am surprised.

    Only 15 min? :
    Not long enough, huh? 15 minutes is my Google default cut-off search time. I found empirically that if I don’t find what I am looking for in under 15 Google minutes then the probability of success after that approaches zero.

    Good thing you replied, moshu – I was interested to read your entries on multilingual blogging.

    Thread Starter j459g

    (@j459g)

    I’m not exactly sure what you’re describing …
    I wanted to make the blog page look something like this forum page – responses always-on and alternate comments having a contrasting background. I thought that there might be an easy way to do it, like changing one or two php tags.

    Maybe something here will help: … Or here:
    It surely should, thanks a lot tsguitar. I don’t understand why I didn’t find that when I searched.

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