Comments box not showing up on new posts — why?

Please don’t post huge chunks of code here. For larger blocks of code, use the WordPress pastebin. It makes life easier for everyone.

In the meantime, have a look in single.php for <?php comments_template();?>.

Sorry about that.

I have checked single.php and that code is within it.

I have a feeling the code you posted is missing somewhere on another critical php file. Perhaps one that was edited to make the newly-paged comment organization look right. Would you or anyone have an idea which file I should be looking for to see that?

Hi again! ?? Still no joy, eh?

I’ve been been playing around on my test blog with that code. Try this…

Find this part:

<?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
	<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) :
		// If comments are open, but there are no comments.
	else : // comments are closed
	endif;
endif;
?>

<h3 id="respond">Add A New Comment!</h3>

…and then change it to this:

<?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
	<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) :
		// If comments are open, but there are no comments.
	else : // comments are closed
	endif;
endif;
endif;
?>

<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>

<h3 id="respond">Add A New Comment!</h3>

Let me know how you get on with that. Apologies in advance if it initiates thermonuclear war!!

Oooh, thank you!

But on which php should I be adding this? ??

Find that first part of code in your comments.php and replace it with the second chunk.

Oh my GOD!

It worked, it worked!

Thank you SO much — I’ve bee sweating over this since Friday night!

Hurrah! No problem matey. I hate being beaten by things like that! ??

(don’t forget to turn the comments back on for that deadly dollar store post too by the way!!)

Hahah, I think I’m going to leave that one closed, otherwise people will think it’s some randomly unpopular article, and that’ll drive me nuts. ??

I’d like to thank you in my next entry — credit to alism? Any page you want me to link to or anything?

Seriously, thanks again! Hopefully someone else who has this problem will see this message in the future!

Ah, fair enough. Well if you want to add a link to my site: blog.alism.com I wouldn’t want to stop you or anything!!

…and once again, you’re quite welcome. ??

hippievstony

hey alism, any chance you might have an idea about why my comment field isn’t showing up? as soon as I add the $withcomments=1 and comment_tempalte() I get “comments are closed” after each post. The comments themselves are outputting, but not the entry fields.

<?php
if ('comments.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'])) die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!');
if (!empty($post->post_password)) { // if there's a password
	if ($_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH] != $post->post_password) {  // and it doesn't match the cookie
?>

<h2><?php _e('Password Protected'); ?></h2>
<p><?php _e('Enter the password to view comments.'); ?></p>

<?php return;
	}
}

$oddcomment = 'alt';

?>

<?php if ($comments) : ?>
	<h3 id="comments"><?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</h3>

<ol class="commentlist">
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

	<li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">

<div class="commentmetadata">
<strong><?php comment_author_link() ?></strong>, <?php _e('on'); ?> <a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title=""><?php comment_date('F jS, Y') ?> <?php _e('at');?> <?php comment_time() ?></a> <?php _e('Said:'); ?> <?php edit_comment_link('Edit Comment','',''); ?>
 		<?php if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>
		<em><?php _e('Your comment is awaiting moderation.'); ?></em>
 		<?php endif; ?>
</div>

<?php comment_text() ?>
	</li>

<?php /* Changes every other comment to a different class */
	if ('alt' == $oddcomment) $oddcomment = '';
	else $oddcomment = 'alt';
?>

<?php endforeach; ?>
	</ol>

<?php else : ?>

<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
	<!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->
	<?php else : // comments are closed ?>

<p class="nocomments">Comments are closed.</p>

	<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>

		<h3 id="respond">Leave a Reply</h3>

<?php if ( get_option('comment_registration') && !$user_ID ) : ?>
<p>You must be <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php the_permalink(); ?>">logged in</a> to post a comment.</p>

<?php else : ?>

<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">
<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>

<p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>. <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="Log out of this account">Logout &raquo;</a></p>

<?php else : ?>

<p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="40" tabindex="1" />
<label for="author"><small>Name <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label></p>

<p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="40" tabindex="2" />
<label for="email"><small>Mail (will not be published) <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label></p>

<p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="40" tabindex="3" />
<label for="url"><small>Website</small></label></p>

<?php endif; ?>

<!--<p><small><strong>XHTML:</strong> <?php _e('You can use these tags:'); ?> <?php echo allowed_tags(); ?></small></p>-->

<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="60" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>

<p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" />
<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
</p>

<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>

</form>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

sorry about the length but I was having a hard time with the paste bin for some reason…