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Comments are not displaying on my blog page

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James Peters
11 years ago · Last reply by Andrew Misplon 11 years ago

James Peters
Hello,

I am having issue with Vantage. Comments are not displaying on my internal page titled “blog”. I have deactivated JetPack but to no effect. Here’s the page:

http://www.seaboldlearning.com/seabold-blog/

It looks like there’s no reference to comments in single.php. Other forum replies suggest that this shouldn’t be the case.

Thanks!

URL: http://www.seaboldlearning.com/seabold-blog/

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  1. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi James

    Thanks for running Vantage.

    single.php calls:

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

    Ref: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comments_template

    Comments will only appear on your single post pages: http://www.seaboldlearning.com/2014/09/character-strengths-and-virtues-1939-edition/.

  2. James Peters 11 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for the quick reply. My problem is that comments are not appearing with any of the posts I make. When I publish a new POST, it displays on my site’s blog page – http://www.seaboldlearning.com/seabold-blog/ – but with no comments. Interestingly, when I publish a new PAGE to the site, it does include a comments area if the template is set to default. Isn’t this sort of backwards? I thought pages didn’t have comments, but posts did.

    Thanks

  3. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 5 months ago

    You could, on your blog page, turn a comment form on, but that comment form would then apply to the entire blog page and not be specific to any post.

    Of the two posts I can see:

    http://www.seaboldlearning.com/2014/09/a-test-post/
    http://www.seaboldlearning.com/2014/09/character-strengths-and-virtues-1939-edition/

    Both have comment forms. This is the behaviour I’d expect on a blog.

    For example take a look at our demo blog page:

    http://demo.siteorigin.com/vantage/blog/ – no comment form, but click on any single post within the blog, e.g:

    http://demo.siteorigin.com/vantage/2013/09/27/delicious-supper/

    And there is a comment form.

    Summary: Comment forms for your posts will only appear on the single post page.

  4. James Peters 11 years, 5 months ago

    OK, that makes sense. Then my issue is: how do I get a blog post to display on the blog page, as your demo does? At the moment, my blog is displaying comments, but no posts:

    http://www.seaboldlearning.com/blog/

    Whereas your demo is displaying posts (with no comments). What template should I be using on my blog page? There are a number of options available.

    Thanks,

  5. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 5 months ago

    Here is how you would disable the comment form on your blog page:
    https://siteorigin.com/basics/disable-wordpress-comments/

    To get your posts displaying on that page, select the Blog page template from the page template right column drop down menu.

  6. James Peters 11 years, 5 months ago

    Andrew,

    I think I must have edited some code and should probably just uninstall and start over. When I choose the Blog template, nothing loads:

    http://www.seaboldlearning.com/blog/

    Best,
    James

  7. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 5 months ago

    Please check if you’ve set a posts page under Settings > Reading.

    Alternatively you could click over to the Page Builder tab on your Blog page and insert a Post Loop widget. That will work too.

    If you’d like to re-install please find a ZIP file download link in your order confirmation email. Here are the instructions for that: https://siteorigin.com/basics/updating-theme-from-zip/

  8. James Peters 11 years, 5 months ago

    It was the setting under Reading that was to blame. Displaying now. Thanks for your help – ticket closed.

  9. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 5 months ago

    Super; glad that helped. Our Blog page template option is a shortcut but it can clash with the correct way of setting this which is under Settings > Reading.

    All the best.

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