Comments enabled by no comments box

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  flourishyogawellbeing · Member · Jan 26, 2012 at 2:34 am

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  Hi,

  I wanted to add a comments box back in to my blog page. I’ve enabled comments in the Discussions menu for the blog page. Do I need to add a widget too? There doesn’t seem to be a comments box showing up.

  Here’s the link: flourishyoga.com.au

  Thanks,

  Bernie

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jan 26, 2012 at 2:37 am

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  See “Settings/Options” here:

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  flourishyogawellbeing · Member · Jan 26, 2012 at 3:42 am

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  Thanks but I’ve already done that. Comments are already enabled in the Settings/Discussions menu.

  Any other suggestions?

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  flourishyogawellbeing · Member · Jan 26, 2012 at 8:00 am

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  I worked it out – the trick is (if you want to enable it for a specific post…)

  1. go to the relevant post/page and select edit
  2. make the discussion module appear by clicking on “screen option” at the top and select discussion/comments

  And it appears.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jan 26, 2012 at 1:33 pm

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  “Thanks but I’ve already done that.”

  The post I linked to doesn’t show “that”, it shows that there are three different settings/options (numbered 1, 2, 3):
  1. Settings > Discussion: “Allow people to post comments on new articles”.
  Changing that doesn’t apply to already published posts or pages.
  2. Post or page editor > Discussion module: “Allow Comments” + “Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on this page”.
  That’s what you now did.
  3. Settings > Discussion: “Automatically close comments on articles older than [ ] days”.
  You also need to disable that.

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  flourishyogawellbeing · Member · Jan 27, 2012 at 12:06 am

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  Thanks. Yep all sorted. The real issue was that I didn’t realise that the Discussion Module existed. I thought that references to the Discussion module were to the Discussion options in the Settings menu.

  So just a bit of confusion with terminology really.

  Thanks again.