comment button on my frontpage?

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    annelissen · Member ·

    I’m a beginner. Please help me . I use eventbrite wordpress theme for a regural blog. I love the design and just cannot find another theme that is wide, has 2 column and a big picture as a header. I almost happy but when you see the posts there is no comment button next to my title, nor at the end.
    You have to click the post to respond and for a lot of readers that just is to much to ask.
    Can someone please help me: how do I get a comment button on my frontpage?

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    timethief · Member ·

    The way your theme and blog are functioning is the norm. Unless you use the P2 theme which is a Twitter-like theme, know that the front pages of our blogs “showcase content” and comments are collapsed on that page. You cannot change this. The way the comments function is coded into the core of WordPress. By clicking the post title or the comments link or comment bubble on some themes the posts on the front page open on their own page where all comments display.

    There is a very good reason for this that’s not evident when one has an empty or next to empty blog. I have nearly 1000 posts in my blog. Imagine how long the page loading time would be if every comment made over the last 7 years displayed. I wouldn’t have any readers because they would be so peeved off at the lengthy page loading time they would click out before the blog loaded.

    Also note that to display excerpts of posts only on the front page of the blog followed by read more links visitors can use to click to read the full post on its own page you can insert the more tag into your posts. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/ That will reduce page loading time. Don’t forget that many are still on dial-up service and they pay for every minute it takes to load the blog.

    The other option is to switch to using a theme that displays automatic excerpts on the front page as these ones do See here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=17#post-1396410

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