change “no comments” to “post a comment”?

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  drshawnanderson · Member · Dec 25, 2008 at 8:51 pm

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  On my home page after the post, it says, “no comments” where “post a comment” should be. In the “about me” section, it looks how I want it to. Is there a way to make my home page comments section look like the “about me” section? I do not wish to purchase any extras. Thanks!

  shawndavidanderson.wordpress.com

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 25, 2008 at 9:24 pm

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  No, there is no way to move the comment box to the main page here at wordpress.COM, and if you think about it, this may not be such a good idea. On post where there are lots of comments, it would require a person to scroll down a long way to get to the next post. I’ve seen blogs where there there are 25 or more comments, and it would be a pain. There are a couple blogs I visit regularly that can have 350 or more comments on a single post.

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  aw1923 · Member · Dec 25, 2008 at 9:24 pm

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  Thats the way the theme is set up. Once someone actually makes a comment then it will change.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Dec 26, 2008 at 2:51 am

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  I actually wish they would change all of the themes to say “No comments yet – add yours” because it would make first time blog visitors more likely to click on the link. Unfortunately, as aw1923 says, there is no way to change the text.

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  drshawnanderson · Member · Dec 26, 2008 at 5:40 am

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  Good idea on the “no comments yet – add yours”. I think it hinders people from commenting. Thanks.

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  stratacus · Member · Dec 27, 2008 at 8:18 am

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  Sorry guys . . . I’ve read though tons, and tons of posts. I just started my blog a couple of days ago and pretty much tried everything under the sun to show a “comment” box on the page.

  (1) re-edited the post
  (2)checked and re-checked all the discussion boxes
  (3)typed and even cut and pasted the “comment” within the html source and still nothing.

  The only thing I noticed is within the tag lines– At one point I cut and paste the “comment” there and it seems to show, but a visitor would go blind trying to see this to post a comment. What can I do to have the comment box show up permanently on my page the right way?

  Kindest regards,

  Stratacus!

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 27, 2008 at 9:13 am

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  We can’t help you without a direct link to your blog, starting with http. The site linked to your name is not a WordPress.com blog and we won’t be able to help you with that.