Comment box not showing
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Even though I have ticked the comment box, other people cannot leave comments. I have done this both ways – on the individual post and the settings. It shows me, but not anyone who logs on from another computer.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there. Your comment box shows fine to me. What might be confusing you is that the comment box doesn’t show on the home page/main post feed. You have to click the post title to go to the single-post view (https://twinmumamongstotherthings.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/oooh-this-is-new/) to see the comment box.
There’s no way to have the comment box display on the main posts feed.
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Sorry to be a pain, but I’m not still not able to see a comment box anywhere. Nor is anyone who has looked at any of the posts on my blog. It’s really frustrating as people keep asking me how hey can comment/like and I can’t help. I’ve looked from other people’s computers and it definitely doesn’t show.
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There is no issue with your blog. Click this link and scroll down to the end of the post to see the comment box https://twinmumamongstotherthings.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/twinprobable/
Your blog is operating correctly. Unless you use P2, a twitter-like theme comments are collapsed on the front page of the blog. The way the comments function is coded into the core of WordPress. By clicking the post title or the comments link the posts on the front page open on their own page where all comments display.
In a new blog one does not have many posts or comments. In an established blog if the comments did not collapse on the front page it would become a mile long in no time flat and page loading time is a page ranking factor. We have only seconds before visitors refuse to wait and click out.
If you are concerned readers will not find the comments section you can use a text widget http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/ to tell them how to do that and place it at the top of your sidebar.
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Thanks. I see what you mean. On the Menu page the post title can be clicked on to see the post and the comments box is at the end of the post. However, why would anyone know to click through on the title when the entire post is available to read on the menu page? Can this be changed? Can my menu page have an overview and then visitors click on the chosen post title they want to read (and comment on)?
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@loopyloopylu
I think most bloggers know to click through to the single post to comment, but I understand that it can be confusing if one’s not familiar with the setup. Most themes show a comment link on the front page with the post which helps with this, but yours doesn’t seem to have that link.You can add the more-tag to show only part of your post on the front page. Then visitors have to click a Read more link to see the entire post. You have to do this in the post editor for each post you want to display this way. You can edit your existing posts to add it, and then just remember to insert it every time you create a new post.
Create a new line at the point you want the first section of the post to be cut off and insert the tag there. Make sure you don’t have any formatting like Bold or Italics active when you insert the tag. Instructions here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
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I’ve registered with ‘Tots 100’ and would like to use their logo on my site. How do I go about this? This is the link:
<div style=”width:165px;padding:0px;margin:0px;border:0px;line-height:0px;”><img style=”width:165px;height:110px;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;” title=”TOTS100 – UK Parent Blogs” alt=”TOTS100 – UK Parent Blogs” src=”http://www.tots100.co.uk/top/badge-6684-2.gif” />
<img style=”width:165px;height:56px;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;” title=”TOTS100″ alt=”TOTS100″ src=”http://www.tots100.co.uk/top/sponsor.gif” /></div> -
The way to do that is to paste this code into a text widget. In fact, you don’t even need all of that code. Just the following code will look exactly the same:
<img title="TOTS100 - UK Parent Blogs" alt="TOTS100 - UK Parent Blogs" src="http://www.tots100.co.uk/top/badge-6684-2.gif" />Note that this will only add the badge to your site. It won’t link back to the Tots 100 site. To have it link back to that site, use:
<a href="http://www.tots100.co.uk/" title="TOTS 100 - UK Parent Blogs"><img title="TOTS100 - UK Parent Blogs" alt="TOTS100 - UK Parent Blogs" src="http://www.tots100.co.uk/top/badge-6684-2.gif" /></a>I’ve left out the second image link, as it’s not actually part of the badge but the badge of one of the Tots 100 sponsors and displaying that image might be considered advertising.
Keep in mind that you’re essentially hotlinking to the badge on the Tots 100 servers, so if they ever remove that file from their servers the badge will also disappear from your site. Depending on the Tots 100 terms of service, you could also download the badge and upload it to your own media library. Then you can insert it via an image widget.
Also note that you can only add a text widget to one of your theme’s widget areas, i.e. either in the footer, or the hidden widget area you reach by clicking on the right-hand icon, so visitors won’t automatically see the badge on your theme.
You can also add the badge to any post or page by pasting these code sections directly into the html/text editor view of the post/page editors.
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Thank you. Next question…when I copy the link to my blog
https://twinmumamongstotherthings.wordpress.com/
It sometimes shows as a rectangular box that is divided in two. The first half should clearly be a photo and the second half says ‘twintown’ blah blah…
How do I ensure that a photo appears?
On my post ‘The Fur(st) Baby’ is shows, but I would like one for the whole page, not just individual posts.
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Next question…when I copy the link to my blog
https://twinmumamongstotherthings.wordpress.com/
It sometimes shows as a rectangular box that is divided in two. The first half should clearly be a photo and the second half says ‘twintown’ blah blah…I’m not entirely sure what you’re talking about here. Where do you copy the link to your blog? Are you talking about when you share a link on Facebook?
If the latter, there’s no way to control directly which image Facebook uses, as their software determines that. Usually it will show the featured image with a post, provided you’ve assigned one. The only way to have complete control is to manually upload the image you want to Facebook, and then post the link with it. You can see here for more information: https://en.support.wordpress.com/facebook-image-thumbnail/
For the home page URL it usually shows the Blavatar image, as one can’t assign featured images to the home page.
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Can you tell me how I imbed a link to a previous blog post within a new blog post, but over type it with different words? So, I want to write:
‘I have written about Denzel before BECAUSE HE IS MY FUR(ST) BABY but he gives me so much material I need to do it again.’
the capitalised bit should be in a different colour in order to click through to the previous post.
Thank you.
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Hi there,
I can help with that. Anchor text is the visible, clickable text in a hyperlink. Relevant anchor text matters because it tells search engines and visitors what the page is about before they land on it.See here https://en.support.wordpress.com/links/
For embedding links in post and pages this is the general link model:
<a href="URL HERE">Highlighted anchor text here</a>This is the visual result – it’s not actually linked here in the forum.
Highlighted anchor text here
Highlighted anchor text here1. In the Visual editor type the relevant descriptive anchor text you want to link to first. Note that “click here” is not a good choice. ;)
2. Then use your mouse to highlight that anchor text. (If you don’t highlight the anchor text the chain icon will remain grayed out and not be useable.)
3. Next click the chain icon in the editor and proceed to create the link. -
P.S. I recommend using the step by step Learn WordPress.COM blogging tutorial linked to the bottom of your Admin page https://learn.wordpress.com
See also the “Video Quick Start” tutorial http://en.support.wordpress.com/video-quick-start/
The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also linked to on the bottom of your Admin page.
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