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Here’s my latest comments.php file:

<?php
if (‘comments.php’ == basename($_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_FILENAME’]))
die (__(‘Please do not load this page directly.’, ’emerald_stretch’));

if (!empty($post->post_password)) {
if ($_COOKIE[‘wp-postpass_’ . COOKIEHASH] != $post->post_password) {
?>
<p><?php _e(‘This post is password protected. Enter the password to read comments.’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></p>
<?php
return;
}
}
$oddcomment = ‘alt’;
?>

<div id=”respond”>

<?php if ($comments) : ?>
<h1><?php comments_number(__(‘No Responses’,’emerald_stretch’), __(‘One Response’,’emerald_stretch’), __(‘% Responses’,’emerald_stretch’)); //_e(‘ to “’,’emerald_stretch’); the_title(); _e(‘”’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></h1>
<div id=”comment-area”>

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<li class=”<?php echo $oddcomment; ?> <?php if (function_exists(‘author_highlight’)) { ?> <?php author_highlight(); ?><?php } ?>” id=”comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>”>

<p class=”commenter”><?php echo get_avatar( $comment, 48 ); ?> <?php comment_author_link() ?><span class=”comment-info”> – <?php comment_date(__(‘F j, Y’, ’emerald_stretch’)) ?></span></p>
<?php if ($comment->comment_approved == ‘0’) : ?>
<span class=”comment-moderation”><?php _e(‘??? Your comment is awaiting moderation ???’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></span>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php comment_text() ?>

<?php
if (‘alt’ == $oddcomment) $oddcomment = ”;
else $oddcomment = ‘alt’;
?>

<?php
if ( is_home() ) {
static $comment_output_count = 0;
$comment_output_count++;
if ( $comment_output_count == 3 )
break;
}
?>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</div>

<?php if ( !is_home() ) : ?>

<?php if (‘closed’ == $post->comment_status) : ?>
<!– <h3><?php _e(‘Comments are closed for this entry.’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></h3> –>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php else : ?>
<?php if (‘open’ == $post->comment_status) : ?>
<?php else : ?>
<!– <h3><?php _e(‘Comments are closed for this entry.’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></h3> –>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if (‘open’ == $post->comment_status) : ?>

<?php if ( is_home() ) : ?>‘).style.visibility = ‘visible'”>Post comment<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( is_home() ) : ?>
<div id=”comment-form-<?php the_ID(); ?>” style=”visibility: hidden;”>
<?php else : ?>
<div id=”comment-form”>
<?php endif; ?>
<h1><?php _e(‘Post a Comment’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></h1>
<?php if ( get_option(‘comment_registration’) && !$user_ID ) : ?>
<p><?php _e(‘You must be’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?> /wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink()); ?>”><?php _e(‘logged in’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?><?php _e(‘ to post a comment’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?>.</p>
</div>
<?php else : ?>
<form action=”<?php echo get_option(‘siteurl’); ?>/wp-comments-post.php” method=”post” id=”commentform”>
<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>
<p><?php _e(‘Logged in as’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?> /wp-admin/profile.php”><?php echo $user_identity; ?>. <?php wp_loginout(); ?>.<!– /wp-login.php?action=logout” title=”<?php _e(‘Log out of this account’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?>”><?php _e(‘Log out »’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?> –></p>
<?php else : ?>
<p><input type=”text” name=”author” id=”author” value=”<?php echo $comment_author; ?>” size=”30″ tabindex=”1″ <?php if ($req) echo “aria-required=’true'”; ?> />
<label for=”author”><?php _e(‘Name’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?><?php if ($req) _e(‘, required’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></label></p>
<p><input type=”text” name=”email” id=”email” value=”<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>” size=”30″ tabindex=”2″ <?php if ($req) echo “aria-required=’true'”; ?> />
<label for=”email”><?php _e(‘Email (will not be published)’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?><?php if ($req) _e(‘, required’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></label></p>
<p><input type=”text” name=”url” id=”url” value=”<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>” size=”30″ tabindex=”3″ />
<label for=”url”><?php _e(‘Your Website (optional)’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></label></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<p><textarea name=”comment” id=”comment” cols=”60″ rows=”10″ tabindex=”4″></textarea></p>
<?php do_action(‘comment_form’, $post->ID); ?>
<p>
<input name=”submit” class=”button” type=”submit” id=”submit” tabindex=”5″ value=”<?php _e(‘Submit’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?>” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”comment_post_ID” value=”<?php echo $id; ?>” />
</p>
</form>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

</div>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php else : ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

Hmmmm,

I just made the changes.

1) Where the comment form used to be there is now a blank space. Is there a way to get rid of the blank space?

2) when I click on “TWO COMMENTS” at the bottom of my first post, it takes me to the top of the page again. I guess I should change the “comments” back to “respond” in point 3 above?

3) When I click on “COMMENTS” at the bottom of my second post, It takes me to the top of the page and thee is no form at all – no where to enter comments.

Help please.
thanks

Excellent – thanks. I’m going to make the changes and see what happens. Would be nice to know as much as you about this language.

I just posted another story if you want to check it out.

Do you have a blog or a website?

Thanks a lot Kawauso.
When you get sick of my questions just tell me.

1) I didn’t understand what you meant about if I want to “take out the responses header” – what is the responses header? (I haven’t put that code in yet)

I can now see the comments automatically. I have a couple other questions:
2) Is there a way to leave it so that I can see the comments automatically as I have it, but not see the “comment form” automatically. So that just below or above the comment there’s a link saying “post a comment” which brings up the comment form. I find that it’s too long and I want the reader to be able to see my next post easily.

3) When I click on the “COMMENTS” OR “ONE COMMENT” link at the bottom of the post, instead of taking me to the comments section, it takes me to the top of the page. Is there a way for the link to take me to the comments section rather than the top of the page?

Thanks again for all your help. It makes this a hell of a lot easier.

Lance

I guess that’s what I don’t understand. I didn’t see any other “respond” in the file that it could scroll to.

While I have you here – perhaps you would answer another question for me. How do I set my blog so that posed comments are automatically shown on my site below the post, rather than people having to click on the “comments” link in order to see the posted comments? (at least to see a number of them before clicking on a link to see more)
And is there a way to make the “comments” link bigger so people can actually notice it if they want to leave a comment?

Thanks

Hi Kawauso,

It does work now – that’s great. I apologize.
Thanks a lot for your help – I appreciate it.
I don’t understand how a change from comments to respond would do that, but it does.

Lance

Does anyone else have a suggestion?

Thanks

Hi,
All I did was add something to the “From” field in the options to the contact form.
so I put “[email protected]” (since my blog is at https://www.lancesview.com )in the From field and now I can receive emails. Strange. I guess my email host doesn’t allow emails without a “From” field.

Hopefully it keeps working.

Thanks

Lance

Hi,

Thanks aongoma.
All I did was add something to the “From” field in the options to the contact form.
so I put “[email protected]” (since my blog is at https://www.lancesview.com )in the From field and now I can receive emails. Strange. I guess my email host doesn’t allow emails without a “From” field.

Hopefully it keeps working.

Hi,

Does anyone have a solution to this problem. I have just set up a blog and I’m having the exact same problem.
Lance

Hi,

That article seems to be too complicated to fix this problem. I can’t imagine I would have to go through all that.
And it seems to relate more to a windows user whereas I’m on a Mac.
Perhaps I’m wrong, but I would imagine there has to be a simpler way for it to work properly. No?

Hi,

I made the change and it didn’t seem to do anything. Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Thanks Esmi – will check it out.

Hi Kawauso,

I’m still not sure what to do. Here is the comments.php file. Maybe you can see something that’s off. Thanks:

<?php
if (‘comments.php’ == basename($_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_FILENAME’]))
die (__(‘Please do not load this page directly.’, ’emerald_stretch’));

if (!empty($post->post_password)) {
if ($_COOKIE[‘wp-postpass_’ . COOKIEHASH] != $post->post_password) {
?>
<p><?php _e(‘This post is password protected. Enter the password to read comments.’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></p>
<?php
return;
}
}
$oddcomment = ‘alt’;
?>

<div id=”comments”>
<?php if ($comments) : ?>
<h1><?php comments_number(__(‘No Responses’,’emerald_stretch’), __(‘One Response’,’emerald_stretch’), __(‘% Responses’,’emerald_stretch’)); //_e(‘ to “’,’emerald_stretch’); the_title(); _e(‘”’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></h1>
<div id=”comment-area”>

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<li class=”<?php echo $oddcomment; ?> <?php if (function_exists(‘author_highlight’)) { ?> <?php author_highlight(); ?><?php } ?>” id=”comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>”>

<p class=”commenter”><?php echo get_avatar( $comment, 48 ); ?> <?php comment_author_link() ?><span class=”comment-info”> – <?php comment_date(__(‘F j, Y’, ’emerald_stretch’)) ?></span></p>
<?php if ($comment->comment_approved == ‘0’) : ?>
<span class=”comment-moderation”><?php _e(‘??? Your comment is awaiting moderation ???’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></span>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php comment_text() ?>

<?php
if (‘alt’ == $oddcomment) $oddcomment = ”;
else $oddcomment = ‘alt’;
?>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</div>

<?php if (‘closed’ == $post->comment_status) : ?>
<!– <h3><?php _e(‘Comments are closed for this entry.’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></h3> –>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php else : ?>
<?php if (‘open’ == $post->comment_status) : ?>
<?php else : ?>
<!– <h3><?php _e(‘Comments are closed for this entry.’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></h3> –>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if (‘open’ == $post->comment_status) : ?>
<div id=”comment-form”>
<h1><?php _e(‘Post a Comment’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></h1>
<?php if ( get_option(‘comment_registration’) && !$user_ID ) : ?>
<p><?php _e(‘You must be’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?> /wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink()); ?>”><?php _e(‘logged in’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?><?php _e(‘ to post a comment’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?>.</p>
</div>
<?php else : ?>
<form action=”<?php echo get_option(‘siteurl’); ?>/wp-comments-post.php” method=”post” id=”commentform”>
<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>
<p><?php _e(‘Logged in as’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?> /wp-admin/profile.php”><?php echo $user_identity; ?>. <?php wp_loginout(); ?>.<!– /wp-login.php?action=logout” title=”<?php _e(‘Log out of this account’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?>”><?php _e(‘Log out »’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?> –></p>
<?php else : ?>
<p><input type=”text” name=”author” id=”author” value=”<?php echo $comment_author; ?>” size=”30″ tabindex=”1″ <?php if ($req) echo “aria-required=’true'”; ?> />
<label for=”author”><?php _e(‘Name’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?><?php if ($req) _e(‘, required’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></label></p>
<p><input type=”text” name=”email” id=”email” value=”<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>” size=”30″ tabindex=”2″ <?php if ($req) echo “aria-required=’true'”; ?> />
<label for=”email”><?php _e(‘Email (will not be published)’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?><?php if ($req) _e(‘, required’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></label></p>
<p><input type=”text” name=”url” id=”url” value=”<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>” size=”30″ tabindex=”3″ />
<label for=”url”><?php _e(‘Your Website (optional)’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?></label></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<p><textarea name=”comment” id=”comment” cols=”60″ rows=”10″ tabindex=”4″></textarea></p>
<?php do_action(‘comment_form’, $post->ID); ?>
<p>
<input name=”submit” class=”button” type=”submit” id=”submit” tabindex=”5″ value=”<?php _e(‘Submit’, ’emerald_stretch’); ?>” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”comment_post_ID” value=”<?php echo $id; ?>” />
</p>
</form>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

Oh – and my site is Lancesview.com or lancesview.com/blog1

Thanks