Comments should be visible below post

  • Unknown's avatar
    richansen · Member ·

    Comments are an important part of the conversation with bog readers. When they require a click to find them, we loose the spontaneous interaction by readers. More and more critical. I would like to see an option on your themed sites to make comments visible without clicking to them. I use Greyzed theme and love it, but know there would be more interaction if the comments were visible by default, not a click.

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

  • Unknown's avatar
    raincoaster · Member ·

    I’d lose readers pretty quickly that way, and so would most bloggers who get more than four or five comments per post. I’ve seen blogs that have comments on the front page, and people hate scrolling down past them to get to the next post. I have one post with over 2000 comments on it, and several with over 100. Would YOU scroll down past that?

  • Unknown's avatar
    timethief · Member ·

    There’s absolutely no way that readers will cotton to having to scroll down a mile long front page. Studies are clear on this when a reader clicks in they wait 8 seconds and if the front page is not fully loaded the vast and overwhelming majority will click out. Moreover, page loading time is a ranking factor and has been since last year so I am thankful that comments collapse like they ought to on WordPress blogs. The fact that they do collapse means I don’t have to scroll for miles through comments on posts I don’t want to read just to locate other posts on the front page of the blog that I may want to read.

  • The topic ‘Comments should be visible below post’ is closed to new replies.