Blank Canvas Theme, comments enabled but not working

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  varshasc · Member · Jan 25, 2022 at 10:08 am

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  Hi there,

  Comments are enabled for pages on the trial site:

  https://varshasc.wordpress.com/

  However, the comment section does not appear on the pages. It appears the issue is somehow associated with the Blank Canvas theme, https://wordpress.com/theme/blank-canvas-blocks/.

  Thanks!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  supernovia · Staff · Jan 26, 2022 at 12:55 am

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  @varshasc, thanks for your patience on this.

  Please be sure the page has comments enabled, then add a comments box to the page — or you can add comments to its template, if you’re using Full Site Editing and want them on every page that has comments enabled.

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  varshasc · Member · Jan 26, 2022 at 9:32 am

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  Hi @supernovia,

  I’m not using Full Site Editing at present, also clicking on Beta Editor gives “The page requested does not exist”.

  Regarding enabling the comments, I have enabled Comments on both the pages on the site, yet, the comments section does not appear on either of the pages. I tried changing the templates as well with no success.

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Jan 26, 2022 at 10:45 am

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  When I open a page on your site and add Post Comments block:

  

  The comment block is correctly displayed in the Preview:

  

  Could you try that and let us know how it goes?

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  varshasc · Member · Jan 26, 2022 at 5:08 pm

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  Ok, so we need to add the Post Comments block to display the Comments section. It is not displayed by enabling the Comments from Post/Page settings. Is that correct?

  Does this apply to all the new themes that have been recently introduced?

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  helper-heroponriki · Member · Jan 26, 2022 at 7:43 pm

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  It applies to any themes that don’t already have a comments section set for the site editor. Most of the themes should have this functionality.

  The “Blank Canvas” theme, by its very nature, is a blank canvas where nothing is defaulted, so in this instance you would need to add the comments block if you’re building a site using the Blank Canvas theme.

  Hope that helps!

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  varshasc · Member · Jan 27, 2022 at 6:46 am

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  That makes sense.

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  varshasc · Member · Jan 27, 2022 at 6:49 am

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  I feel the option to add Post Comments block should be added in the Comments documentation.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 27, 2022 at 7:32 am

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  Our team is still working on the documentation for the new blocks introduced in WordPress 5.9. We couldn’t finalise the docs until the final version was launched, which only happened this week, but they should be available soon.

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  varshasc · Member · Jan 27, 2022 at 1:13 pm

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  Thanks once again!