gorillasgocrazy

Many Thanks for taking the time to answer that. Yep I will step back as you say now and consider it. And yes well guessed. We want to develop open peer review for incoming work that both peers and public can comment in a two tier system of comments (something else i am thinking through). This document with the comments would then be saved (possibly statically) alongside an updated version, something along those lines. So yep I think running the peer review on a separate installation under a sub-domain interlinked into the main site. Will get back to you when I have something to share ??
Great plugin btw

Or perhaps I just make the CommentPress ‘theme’ only active on certain pages that I want it?

sorry here is blog and a good example of what i mean:
https://kularing.info/category/uok-modules/se301/

damn just figured it!!!! the plugin slideshow gallery stopped it from working!!!! have removed it. Any one know why it would do that???

solved it!!!

That is exactly what I mean!

The problem is I have installed wordpress on my host, so that means my website address (www.example.com) now corresponds to the first page of the wordpress theme I have selected. So when I load my index.html file into my host it just overides the rest of the website, even if I put a link to one of the pages in the wordpress part of the website, because both my index.html and the homepage of the wordpress theme are both https://www.example.com, so it just dont work.
I dont know if I have explained that very well, but I hope you get the gist.
in short
-could you tell me where I should save my index.html file to correlate to https://www.example.com i.e.homepage?
-what should I put as the http address in the link on this homepage so that it joins to the first page of the wordpress themed part of the website?
-what do I do about the homepage on the wordpress theme that has the http: https://www.example.com?

thanks