“Reply to comment” box is above – not below – original comment

  • Resolved lauriepk

    (@lauriepk)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    How do I make the “reply to comment” box appear AFTER the comment (instead of above)? Right now I hit “reply” and no comment box appears. It’s above the original comment, and I can’t see it. For example, I want to reply to the lady’s comment on https://www.echoingjesus.com/christians-grieving-loss-with-hope-faith/ , but when I hit “Reply” the comment box does not appear below the comment itself. It stays above.

    How do I fix this, please? There must be a way to make the comment reply box appear when I hit “Reply”!

    Thank you,
    Laurie

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  • Hi @lauriepk,

    I’ve checked your site and it actually uses the default WordPress comment form as part of the theme, rather than Jetpack Comments. Therefore, the theme authors will be the best people to contact for advice about making modifications to the order of elements in the comment area.

    Custom code would be required to change the page order of Jetpack Comments and that is outside the scope of our support, so I recommend contacting a developer for help in that instance.

    Thread Starter lauriepk

    (@lauriepk)

    Thank you for your response! But, the “Reply to Comments” works perfectly on my other 4 blogs, which use the exact same theme on the exact same webhost.

    Here’s an example of the “Reply to Comments” working perfectly, with the same theme, WordPress version, settings and web host:
    https://blossomtips.com/feeling-unwanted-no-one-cares/

    What might be causing the difference, do you think?

    Thank you!
    Laurie

    Thread Starter lauriepk

    (@lauriepk)

    Ok, I figured it out! It’s the new version of Yoast on my new blog that makes the difference. My old blogs must be grandfathered, somehow.

    Here’s a couple of links to explain it:

    https://yoast.com/testing-yoast-seo-7-0/
    The feature that removed ?replytocom variables from URLs. This is a core “feature” that makes it possible to reply to other people’s comments when JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Every comment gets its own link because of this feature, so if you have 100 comments, you get 100 extra links to a post, and search engines have to index every one of these links. This is stupid. So: our feature to remove those is now on by default and doesn’t have a setting anymore. This falls in line with WordPress’ core philosophy: decisions, not options. There is a ticket open to change this behavior in WordPress core too.

    And a work-around, which I’m not using:
    Version 7 of WordPress SEO by Yoast removes the replytocom variables by default
    https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/340204/yoast-makes-comment-reply-link-function-output-plain-link-to-comment-instead-of/340208

    All good things,
    Laurie

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