comments box below most recent post and archiving posts
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Our blog address is http://dodopadblog.com and we’ve just started it recently.I’m a self-confessed nebie at this….
As we add posts they all get added one on top of the other – the most recent at the top. Trouble is that when we look at the preview there is a comments box that appears directly under the most recent post but when it is published this disappears and all that is left is a tiny ‘Leave a comment’ link that no-one sees! Plus all the past posts are added below making that front page an ever-increasing one.
So two things that I would like to achieve:
1) To get the recent posts (which we chose) ‘archived’ so that they can be referred to in ‘Recent Ramblings’ – the widget on the LH side where their titles already appear
2) get a full ‘comments’ box under the most recent post when it is published.The theme we are using is Tarski
Can you help please?
Thanks,
Rebecca
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The reason you see the full comment box when looking at the preview is, you’re looking at the individual post’s webpage. When you see only the little Leave a Comment link, it’s because you’re looking at the post on the front page.
You can reduce the number of posts shown on the front page under Settings->Reading. The recommended number is 5-10, no more.
I’m not sure what you’re asking with 1) there. Could you rephrase that?
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hmm – well I looked at Settings – > Reading and I will fiddle with that…not sure if I will be able to make it work!
maybe I wasn’t clear enough. Ideally I would like just the most recent post to show up each time we do a new post with a full comments box for people to fill in and comment on, immediately underneath it. Can you tell me how I achieve that? Have a look at this blog done by a friend http://stuartsprogress.co.uk/
There he has a ‘featured article’ (latest post) and ‘progress updates’ (equivalent of my ‘archive’ heading) . I want to achieve that sort of thing where not ALL the text of every post appears. We could change the names but that is the idea. Does that make more sense? Thanks for trying to help me anyway!
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It will not show up with the comment box on the page. That’s not the way themes work here at WordPress.com; ALL of them are over one click. You could do it with WordPress.Org software on an independent host.
I don’t see ANY comments box on that site, and it’s not a WordPress.COM blog.
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Sorry I thought it was using WordPress…when I looked at the page source there was wordpress in it:
<meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 2.8.5″ />
The comments box is below the other comments that have been left related to any one article:
see: http://stuartsprogress.co.uk/2009/08/always-look-on-the-bright-side-of-life/#comments
the box is at the bottom of that page.
so I made the assumption it was WordPress…sorry.
OK – at least I now know what can/can’t be done – and I’m not tecchie enough to use the .org software so will have to get on with what you supply – which is pretty lovely anyway!
So thank you.
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That site is a self-hosted wordpress.ORG installation on a third-party hosting site. A lot can be done with self-hosted blogs which cannot be done here.
From what I’m seeing, they are probably using some plugins to achieve the functionality you are seeing. Plugins cannot be used at wordpress.COM.
If you want that level of functionality and flexibility, you will have to self-host your own blog somewhere like dreamhost or godaddy, etc.). Figure an average total monthly cost of $10 to $25 per month depending on your storage and bandwidth requirements. You will be responsible for all installations and configuration, all backups, all upgrade, and all troubleshooting. If something goes wrong, you have to figure out what it is and fix it.
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Hi – as I said before I am not tecchie enough to do any self-hosting etc. so will stick with what we have for now. Many thanks for all the help/info. Am going to close this thread now. Toodlepip! as Lord Dodo would say…
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