Comments and Widgets
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How do enable comments section and widgets on a page? They are not showing up.
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Hi there,
Click this link please http://matureandwell.com/2015/04/16/build-a-forum-for-um/ and scroll down to the very bottom. Comments are enabled by default on posts and pages in every WordPress blog.
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.
You can enable and disable comments on free hosted WordPress.com blogs on this page > Settings > Discussion Discussion settings is where you set up defaults for comments.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/You can override the default settings and enable or disable future comments on any individual post or page.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/comments and pingbacks enabled http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/discussion-metabox.png?w=688
comments and pingbacks disabled
https://support.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/module-toggle1.png?w=688See also for faster ways:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/comments-off-1/Important Note: By default, new blogs on WordPress.com will have the Discussion hidden. You can reveal it by clicking on Screen Options http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/ on the top right corner of your Admin page, and checking the box that says Discussion so the module is included. http://en.support.wordpress.com/modules/#list-of-modules
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widgets on a page
Widgets can be configured to appear only on certain pages (or be hidden on certain pages) by using the Visibility panel.
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Note: re: forums on WordPress.COM blogs
For your WordPress.COM blog you have three free workaround forum options: http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/04/23/wordpress-com-forum-options/
One approach is to register a forum on the internet and then create a custom menu in your blog and include a custom link to the forum in it.
a custom link to the forum in it.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
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