Commets not available

If comments were not previously enabled then you must manually enable comments for existing posts. Form the post edit screen look for the Discussion meta box and check to allow comments. If you don’t see it click Screen Options at the top of the page and select Discussion.

Hope that helps.

We are using an older version of WordPress (3.7.1) but I already had the comments and discussion checked on the page Screen Options. I checked the Allow comments box at the bottom of the post and updated, but I still don’t see comments or where someone would leave a comment. Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Debra

You should consider updating WordPress to the current version.

As for comments, it’s possible that your theme does not support comments or they have been edited out. A link to your site would be helpful.

You can check your single.php file in your theme directory and see if comments are being called up in the loop.

Just checked and don’t see comments called up anywhere. I’ve also posted on the theme forum site to see if it’s a theme issue and not a WP issue.
I’m not totally well versed in PHP as yet. What would a loop look like?
Thanks,
D

What would the “loop” in the single.php file look like? I don’t see anything about comments in the single.php file, but may not know what I’m looking for.

What theme are you using? Please post a link to your site.

I’m using Blocked as the theme. I cannot post a link to the site as we are self hosted and you cannot access the site without a Citrix account.
Here is the code on the single.php page

<?php

/* Single Posts */

if (!defined(‘ABSPATH’)) die();

global $der;

get_header();

$post_type = get_post_type();

if ($post_type == ‘portfolio’ && $der->has_layout(‘portfolio_layout’)):

$der->render_layout(); // portfolio posts bulk layout

elseif ($der->has_layout(‘single_layout’)):

$der->render_layout(); // single posts bulk layout

else:

default_section_title();

$der->open_section();

default_post_content(11);

default_sidebar(5);

$der->close_section();

endif;

get_footer();

?>