WP Native Comments not working

  • Resolved joolyspooly

    (@joolyspooly)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    I am having a heck of a time getting the comment field to appear in my blog.

    I added two plug ins, and since then have had some big issues.

    I added WP Recipe Maker and wpDiscuz – to include ratings in the recipe template, and have a more interesting comment field with ratings. However, in setting up wpDiscuz, it noted that would not work with Jetpack installed (and I noticed I had two comment fields from each plug in). So, I deactivated Jetpack, and things appeared ok.

    However, I then realized the comments were only working on the one post I was editing, and no comments at all were appearing on other posts. Since then, I have deactivated all related plug ins (Jetpack, wpDiscuz and WP Recipe Maker) thinking it would then return to the WP native comments function. I also worked through every discussion area to enable comments (including on pages and posts, and in dashboard settings/discussions)… but no comment field ever returned anywhere on the site. I then tried reactivating he other plug ins – separately, together, different combos… and in all cases no comments ever show up again.

    My theme is Elara (free).. I find it very odd and frustrating that after deactivating and deleting other plug ins, the WP native comment function is gone.

    anyone have any ideas?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Euler

    (@eulerarthur)

    Hey there,
    Here are some suggestions:

    – First, make sure to check the boxes on your posts to ‘allow comments.’ It can be done on Settings -> Discussion, and on the edit screen of each post/page. If you can’t see the “discussion” box there, in the ‘screen option’ dropdown field (located near the top right), there are tick-boxes to show the ‘discussion’ box for the posts/pages. Tick mark it. In the ‘discussion’ box below the post/page editor, you can then allow/disallow comments for the page.

    – If you’ve already verified it, so this problem can be a compatibility issue. To find the culprit (a conflicting plugin or theme) of this issue, you may follow this flowchart: https://premium.wpmudev.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Support-Process-Support-Process.gif. Remember to backup your site before.

    – Another possibility is to ask for help directly in the support pages of the plugins you mentioned.

    Thread Starter joolyspooly

    (@joolyspooly)

    Thank you! I followed the flowchart and found the issue! All fixed ??

    Euler

    (@eulerarthur)

    Nice! What was it?
    Please mark it as “resolved”. Thank you.

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