rgbatson

Good help, Josh. No sample yet. Nice idea on animated gif!
Thanks

Forgot to add I am using TwentyEleven theme.
Bob Batson

Thank you, sixhours. I shall now deed to you the town of Selma, Alabama. . . .

Thank you. I was putting <?php comments_template(); ?> in the wrong place – in page edit section instead of template. Works now!

Yes, ‘allow comments’ is clicked, but no comment entry form appears.

Thank your for your kind attention. The static page code is from the single.php with a template heading added. Below the dashed line I have added the code inserted from the admin page where it allows that page to be edited. I don’t know where WP inserts that added code. The url for the page is: https://www.competencybasedmanagement.com/

<?php
/*
Template Name: single page
*/
?>
<?php
/**
* The Template for displaying all single posts.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Eleven
* @since Twenty Eleven 1.0
*/

get_header(); ?>

<div id=”primary”>
<div id=”content” role=”main”>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

<nav id=”nav-single”>
<h3 class=”assistive-text”><?php _e( ‘Post navigation’, ‘twentyeleven’ ); ?></h3>
<span class=”nav-previous”><?php previous_post_link( ‘%link’, __( ‘<span class=”meta-nav”>←</span> Previous’, ‘twentyeleven’ ) ); ?></span>
<span class=”nav-next”><?php next_post_link( ‘%link’, __( ‘Next <span class=”meta-nav”>→</span>’, ‘twentyeleven’ ) ); ?></span>
</nav><!– #nav-single –>

<?php get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘single’ ); ?>

<?php comments_template( ”, true ); ?>

<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

</div><!– #content –>
</div><!– #primary –>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

—————————————————————–
codebase=”https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0″><param name=”flashvars” value=”src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.competencybasedmanagement.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F08%2FIntroduction-to-Workforce-Planning-Multi-Media-Presentation-B03-1.mp4&poster=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.competencybasedmanagement.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F08%2Fopening..jpg” /><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” /><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” /><param name=”src” value=”https://fpdownload.adobe.com/strobe/FlashMediaPlayback.swf&#8221; /><param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” /><embed width=”600″ height=”450″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”https://fpdownload.adobe.com/strobe/FlashMediaPlayback.swf&#8221; flashvars=”src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.competencybasedmanagement.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F08%2FIntroduction-to-Workforce-Planning-Multi-Media-Presentation-B03-1.mp4&poster=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.competencybasedmanagement.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F08%2Fopening..jpg” allowFullScreen=”true” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” /></object>

<?php comments_template( ”, true ); ?>

Thank you Jackson. However, this is a static page. Do I put the loop after my static content?
This is my first effort with WP, after studying two books and a load of doc. Very thin on adding comments to static page though.

You are substituting an issue of wilfulness for one of established SEO ADVANTAGE. I hope readers of this exchange inform themselves of the virtue of writing their own description, in order to control this piece of Google behavior to their benefit.

Then don’t use it (but you’d have to not care about SEO or Google’s description to make that choice). It’s just so elementary. And for those who don’t know, it would help them learn.

Then I suggest that this be required for any theme to qualify as default.

Thank you both. Will try these next time!
(I only got a new password when I wiped everything out and started over this time, which hopefully I can now avoid.)