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!
Hi James
Thanks for running Vantage.
single.php calls:
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/.
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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/
It was the setting under Reading that was to blame. Displaying now. Thanks for your help – ticket closed.
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.