Comment Box Not Showing

  • Resolved proverbs31woman

    (@proverbs31woman)


    2 years, 3 months ago

    I’ve done many searches but haven’t, as yet, found the answer to my problem.

    I’m running version 6.0.1 on paid hosting.

    The theme I’m using ACL I don’t believe has a function separately relating to commenting.

    I noticed recently I just haven’t been getting comments – not for a long time. A long, long time, actually. I’ve gone and checked all my settings for discussions and allowing people to submit comments on new posts was switched off – no idea how or when. I don’t recall ever doing that. I now have it switched on.

    I also have comments ticked in the screen elements part of the post. So why is the comment box just not showing? I don’t get it. It is showing on posts dated 2021 and 2020 but not on posts dated from March 2022 onwards and I can’t figure out why. Hoping someone might be able to guide me?

    I published a post today which the link leads to.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by proverbs31woman. Reason: Forgot to add something
    • This topic was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Hi @proverbs31woman,

    Does it show the comment section if you try switching to one of the default WordPress Core themes such as Twenty Twenty-One and de-activate all the plugins?

    Thread Starter proverbs31woman

    (@proverbs31woman)

    I should have thought of that, shouldn’t I have, @kaavyaiyer. Just gave that a try, but no, it’s not showing up in the Twenty Twenty Two theme at all. So clearly not a theme issue but something to do with WordPress. I appreciate you replying. I’m in Australia so appreciate the timing for responses here.

    Thread Starter proverbs31woman

    (@proverbs31woman)

    I’ve found the issue! I don’t like the new ‘Block’ format so use Classic Editor instead.

    I found this post which showed where the right-hand bar is for enabling comments but couldn’t see it in the format I’m using. So I thought maybe I’ll disable the classic editor plugin for a bit and then go to the latest post and check the right-hand sidebar. Sure enough, there it was so I could tick for comments and refreshed and now it shows.

    https://wordpress.com/support/comments/#enable-or-disable-comments

    I find that incredibly annoying – I’m surely not the only one who prefers the Classic Editor style?

    At any rate, it’s now resolved and hopefully my question here will resolve this issue for anyone else.

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