Comment box not displaying on posts

  • Resolved cryophotos

    (@cryophotos)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    Before I say anything else, yes, I have checked all the boxes on my posts to ‘allow comments.’

    I cannot see a comment box on the bottom of my posts. I am using the Lodestar theme, though it seems a few other people out there have the same unresolved problem on other themes as well.

    The post from the reference url [ redundant link removed ] actually already has a comment from my old website (imported it to WP) but that does not display on the bottom of the post either.
    I am in the single-post view looking at each post (yes, I am using posts, not pages) and none display a place for someone to leave a comment. I have selected the option to ‘allow comments’ on every post. On someone else’s suggestion I have tried to ‘deactivate’ every single plugin with no change. I deleted all ‘Extra CSS’ with no effect. I have viewed the pages in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, none of them display any comments or a place to leave a comment.
    I have been trying to figure this out for hours and have read many, many posts and articles about it and nothing seems to work. PLEASE HELP

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by cryophotos.
    • This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Before I say anything else, yes, I have checked all the boxes on my posts to ‘allow comments.’

    Two places?

    1. Settings -> Discussion

    2. Where you create/edit posts or pages in admin, check if you have ticked comments for your posts/pages in the “discussion” box below the editor. If you don’t see the “discussion” box there, in the ‘screen option’ dropdown field (located near the top right), there are tick-boxes to show the ‘discussion’ box for the posts/pages. Tick mark it. In the ‘discussion’ box below the post/page editor, you can then allow/disallow comments for the page.

    Thread Starter cryophotos

    (@cryophotos)

    Thanks for your input, I actually forgot to look at the Settings > Discussion one, but alas, everything there looks correct, too. Not it.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    This may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt to disable all plugins, and use one of the default (Twenty*) themes. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one to identify the source of your troubles.

    If you can install plugins, install “Health Check”: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/health-check/ On the troubleshooting tab, you can click the button to disable all plugins and change the theme for you, while you’re still logged in, without affecting normal visitors to your site.

    Thread Starter cryophotos

    (@cryophotos)

    I have disabled every plugin and changed themes to Twenty Nineteen and still cannot see the comments or comment box

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    hmm… let me ask around.

    Thread Starter cryophotos

    (@cryophotos)

    OH MY *** Haha Got it. There’s another box on the Settings > Discussion page that ‘closes’ comments on posts older than x days. I read it as comments that are older than 28 days, but it actually mean old posts. Turns out since I backdated my posts they were ‘disabled’ by default…

    So, thanks for bringing my attention back to that page, anyway!

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Glad you got it sorted ??

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