Comments Disabled After Customising CSS
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Hello,
My comments form has been inadvertently disabled after I customised my CSS, and I don’t understand how to re-enable it. Any tips?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Small changes to CSS really shouldn’t disable comments. Check your CSS to make sure you have not used display:none on any comment-related styles.
You can check to make sure comments are enabled for a post or page by opening it for editing and looking for the option that says, “Allow comments on this post.” If that is checked, then the comments should be working.
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Thank you for the tip! I only see the word “none” after list-style…. I don’t know if that matters? My first blog that has no theme customisation has working comments, but my 2nd blog, customised, doesn’t. All posts have “allow comments” checked.
If you’d like I can send you my script.
Below is the comments section of the script from the problem blog:
#comments,#respond {
margin:2em 0 10px 5px;
}#commentform {
background:#f9fcfc;
border-top:#ddd 1px solid;
border-bottom:#ddd 1px solid;
margin:10px 0;
padding:10px;
}.commentnum {
font-size:1.5em;
font-weight:bold;
margin:0 5px 0 0;
}#container .commentlist {
border-top:#ddd 1px solid;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}.commentlist li {
list-style:none;
border-bottom:#ddd 1px solid;
margin:0;
padding:.5em;
}.commentlist li.thread-alt {
background:#f9f9f9;
}.commentlist li .cmtinfo {
font-size:1em;
}.commentlist li cite {
font-style:normal;
font-weight:bold;
}.commentlist li .cmtinfo em {
float:right;
font-style:normal;
font-size:.9em;
color:#3399CC;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}.commentlist .children li {
border-bottom:0;
}#content-main .commentlist .children {
border-left:1px solid #ddd;
margin:10px 0 10px 10px;
padding:0;
}#content .commentsfeed {
background:url(‘img/icon_feed.gif’) no-repeat left center;
padding-left:16px;
}#content .trackback {
background:url(‘img/link.gif’) no-repeat left center;
padding-left:20px;
}input.textbox {
border:#ccc 1px solid;
background:#fff url(‘img/shadow_top.gif’) repeat-x top;
font:1em Verdana, Arial, Serif;
width:150px;
padding:2px;
}textarea {
width:80%;
line-height:2em;
height:20em;
border:1px solid #ccc;
background:#fff url(‘img/shadow_top.gif’) repeat-x top;
font:1em Verdana, Arial, Serif;
padding:10px;
}.textbox:focus,textarea:focus {
background:#fff url(‘img/shadow_top.gif’) repeat-x top;
border:#999 1px solid;
}.post h4 {
font-size:1em;
font-weight:normal;
font-family:Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Serif;
}.post h4 em {
font-style:normal;
float:right;
font-weight:normal;
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@designsimply
The problem could be here >
Settings > Discusssion
Other Comment Settings
Automatically close comments on articles older than ___ days. -
Could be, if the problem is happening on old posts. It would be helpful to know which blog bronzeeyes is talking about in this case.
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Yes it is https://princessnayeli.wordpress.com. The comment link appears beneath each, but none of the posts lead to a comment box.
Timethief, I checked and the “Automatically close…” option box has 30 days entered in it, but is not checked. I assumed that if I left it unchecked, people could post comments on posts several months+ later, but perhaps I am mistaken?
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@bronzeeyes The comment box appears when I click the ‘leave a comment’ links on that page. I also noticed that if you log out and then check the links, the comment box doesn’t appear. That’s because you have checked the option that says “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” in the Settings > Discussion page.
The color for the links in that blog are so light that it’s really hard to see, did you mean to make the links light like that?
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@designsimply: The comment box appears on the latest posts only; March 5 and earlier it doesn’t.
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Oh! Yes, the links are light on purpose, to simulate glass… ;) Might darken them a bit more. The Labyrinth blog is very new, and the visitor who contacted me about the comments actually happened to not be registered… I didn’t know it meant they had to be registered with WordPress…didn’t really think much of it when I quickly scanned that settings page. It was a careless oversight on my part.
Thank you so much. I had previous knowledge of HTML for ages, but only recently taught myself CSS (took 10 hours straight one day to learn and customise my script properly!), so I thought I may have tampered with something I shouldn’t have.
Many thanks again and Happy Spring to you! ^_^
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Oh… I don’t have the comment date limit box checked… I wonder why the comment boxes before 5th March don’t appear…
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Well, at least the main issue was resolved. A lot of the other bloggers I communicate with happen to be on other blogging sites which tend to allow registered users from a group of different blog sites to post, so I thought it would be the same here. Guess not, but no matter. I lifted the limitation it had.
I’ll look into the missing pre-March comment boxes.
Thanks again
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For the older posts, the comments are actually disabled. To turn them on, open each post for editing and find the option that says, “Allow comments on this post.” Make sure it is checked. Make sure to save the posts if you make a change to that setting.
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