manojit

For some reason I cannot access your URL (get a “cannot find server” error). It is possible your theme is screwing up something somewhere (although I would trust WordPress’s default theme in such matters over any other).

Looks like your comment form does not have a header. Do this (after backing up your original comments.php file): add “<h3 id=”respond”>Leave a comment:</h3>” (minus outside quotes) at the top of your comment form, right after the line “<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>”. This will add a standard header for your comment box (you can customize it to suit your taste) and also link it to your original anchor tag with the ID “respond”.
Cheers.

Make sure your theme’s comments.php file has the anchor label “respond” – something like <h3 id=”respond”>Leave a reply</h3>. Without it the anchor link “#respond” in your front page cannot locate the header “Leave a reply” of your comment box. I just noted that my theme’s comments.php file did not have it, which explains why I had the same problem from both the front and single post page. The problem was gone after I added this label.
Cheers.

I have seen this too (with the only difference is that it does the same thing from the single post page too), and at least in my case the “#respond” anchor tag seems to work okay, from both the front and single post pages, only if there are already comments present for the post. (You can try this out with a test comment to see if you have similar issue).
Cheers.

Have you figured out the answer yet? I have been wondering about the same, and I guess maybe you can access your spam list via Dashboard -> Comments -> Spam [https://<blog URL>/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?comment_status=spam], and likewise you can get ham list (from its definition) via Dashboard -> Comments -> Approved+Pending. The only thing I do not understand is, Akismet’s spam count is always higher than the number of spams shown in the list. I thought it may have had to do with only one spam comment from a given IP being displayed in the list (as mentioned here), but I do see multiple spams from one particular IP. Any clarification is much appreciated.
Thanks.

Thanks. I will try what you suggested and see how far I can go.

James, about stuff to put in the footer, I repeated the header navigational links there too, so after coming all the way down you won’t have to scroll back up to use them. Usually works well for long pages.

filosofo, thanks again. The page is better now, but, 1) it shows the entire post rather than just the title (with link) that I wanted, and, 2) the list is a small subset of the post IDs that I supplied. Anything more?

After waiting it out, finally my firefox flashed an Internal Server Error (“The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.”)

filosofo, thanks for your time and effort. After doing as you suggested, the page seems to take forever to load. Any more thoughts?
Thanks again for your help.

Okay, following moshu’s suggestion, I created a custom page template ‘mostviewed.php’ by copying page.php, and here is the relevant piece that uses the ‘get_posts()’ command suggested above:

<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

			<div class="entry">
Here are some of my posts that are visited more often than others.

<?php get_posts(array('include' => '70,44,48,21,24,22,11,65,51,96,97,40,91')); ?>

				<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;
'); ?>
		<?php link_pages('<strong>Pages:</strong> ', '
', 'number'); ?>
			</div>

Then I created an empty page with this page template. But I still get this empty page, and not this that I wanted (post IDs in get_posts() correspond exactly to this list). What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

Thanks, moshu.

This looks simple. Where do I put this code to make a separate page of my list of posts? Thanks!

James and TVD, thanks for your encouraging comments! Yes, the header is part of my graphics woes, and I will try to do something about it soon (at least put a decent logo before the title, once I come up with one).

James, you have some validation issues with your blog.

Other than that, I like the overall layout (your header is certainly better than mine). The front page looks somewhat busy, but that could be just me. I like black text on white background in a textual blog (as you see from mine). Why do you have multiple feed buttons in the footer?

that bad, eh?