Comments Option Disappears from Archived Pages

  • feaverish

    (@feaverish)


    20 years ago

    I recently turned comments on again after having them disabled for the last few months. They work fine on the main homepage, but they disappear from the archived pages. And by ‘disappear’ I mean the option to launch the comments popup to view the comments or leave a new comment is not present on the archived pages.

    Don’t the archived pages just use my theme’s ‘index.php’ file for their output? What’s going on here? I’m running WordPress 1.5.

    Note: previously, when the comments were disabled, I had commented-out the “Comments are closed” bit in index.php, so that it wouldn’t show up on the main page. That’s been un-commented-out now, though.

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  • Thread Starter feaverish

    (@feaverish)

    Sorry to post again, but I realized some of my terminology was confusing.

    Basically, the popup comments link appears on my homepage, but not on any of the permalinks.

    A source view of the homepage shows this:

    <!--this is the meta for the feedback/comments-->
    <div class="feedback">
    Comments (4)
    </div>

    While a source view of a permalink-ed page shows:

    <!--this is the meta for the feedback/comments-->
    <div class="feedback">

    </div>

    Clearly the PHP responsible for outputting the comments isn’t doing so on permalinked pages, but I have no idea why.

    The permalinks and homepage use exactly the same stylesheet (you can check it out here, for what it’s worth), so I don’t think that’s the problem.

    I’ve searched the forums, the Wiki, and Google, but I haven’t been able to figure this out.

    Please help!

    Thread Starter feaverish

    (@feaverish)

    Okay, this is turning into a one-sided conversation, but I still need help! I figured out that the popup-comments link is showing up on my archived pages, as well as on my homepage. The only place the comments link isn’t showing up is on my permalinks. So, for instance, https://www.feaverish.com/index.php/archives/2005/02/11/ has a link to the popup comments, but https://www.feaverish.com/index.php/archives/2005/02/11/cerberus-prime/ (the permalink), does not.

    I assume this has to do with the structure of the permalinks, but I don’t know how to fix it. I upgraded to WordPress 1.5 last week, and I’m using a custom theme a€?? I just modified (as per the instructions) my existing index file. Everything works fine except for the comments on the permalinks. Please, I’m begging you won’t somebody help me?

    Thread Starter feaverish

    (@feaverish)

    Okay, well I eventually got it to work by a€?? and this wasn’t fun a€?? simply ditching my theme, which was carried over from 1.2, and restyling the “classic” theme in 1.5. I don’t know what changed a€?? as far as I can tell the code is the same a€?? but at least it’s working now.

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