How to get reply-feature?

Is it turned on? In settings->discussion from your admin panel

“Enable threaded (nested) comments 5 levels deep” ? Yes, it is turned on

When creating / editing the post or pgae, top right, Screen Options -> ensure Discussions is ticked. Under Discussion, there should be two options “Allow Comments” and “Allow Trackbacks and pingbacks” on this page.

I am assuming by the way you are using WordPress 3.2.1

I am using 3.2.1, and discussion is ticked, but i can’t see anything to the two options you are talking about

If Discussions is ticked, then just underneath the text box where you write your post, there should be a seperate section called “Discussions”?

Found it. Both boxes are ticked

Ah I see the issue…..

You can’t actually reply to individual comments

That may be a feature not included in your theme….

Fixing that may be pretty involved, depending on how the theme is set up….

Ah right yes I see. My apologies!

Yes it will most certainly be a theme specific option – I know the default twentyeleven theme allows this.

I see now that the theme may be the problem, thanks:) Maybe I’ll just have to redesign the whole blog with the twentyeleven theme…

You could try to find a bit of code that you can stick into your comments.php that will do this, depends how code-savvy you are. Seems like a lot of work for one feature…you could try finding a plugin that will add the feature in.

if ( is_singular() && get_option( 'thread_comments' ) )
		wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' );

if not already there, this added above the wp_head call gets the js in place for threaded comments

If that doesn’t get things going, then possibly comparing twentyeleven to your theme may help further

depending on how old your theme is… it may have hard coded comments stuff rather than making use of wp_list_comments, or especially comment_form in comments.php to handle all the heavy lifting