copy and paste posts
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I read in the help section that the comments form doesn’t show up on the HOME page. Is there a way to move a post from the HOME page to a new page and include all the “likes” and comments it received?
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There are links in the bottom of the posts that encourage people to comment. Each post on the front page has its own web page, called the post pageview.
If you would not like a post to appear on the front page of the site, there is little you can do about it except ride it out while you replace it with new ones. It’s just part of the cycle. Also note that you can use the More Tag to set the length of the excerpt seen on the front page, making the front page more scroll manageable.
If you would like to set a specific post or Page as the front page of your site, go to Settings > Reading and set the Front Page as whatever you wish. Be sure to create a Blog page (Blog is the best name for it, it’s a web standard) for visitors to access the timely content on your site and ensure it is clearly marked as the second or third item in your main navigational menu.
All posts and Pages (if comments are enabled, which they usually shouldn’t be) keep whatever likes, comments, etc., are on them.
I hope this helps as I’m not sure exactly what you wish to do.
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The posts on your home / front page do not show comments, likes, and so on. When a reader clicks on the title of a post it loads as a pageview just as Lorelle said above. As a pageview, the post will show all the info you are talking about: comments, likes, and whatever.
This is logical and very practical. Imagine that each of your posts had 50 or 100 or more comments. If that many comments were displayed on your home page, then your readers would become exhausted scrolling down, down, down, and down to find the next post! A reader worn out by all that boring scroll-exercise would most likely give up on reading more posts on your site and move on to something more interesting elsewhere online.
Does this make sense to you?
That is also why Lorelle suggested that you could use the read more tag so that you can easily display short and easily scanned parts of each post to be encouraged to read more of your blog.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/Also notice that your theme displays the number of comments made on each post under the title, right next to the post’s date.
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On second thought, maybe you are asking a simpler question:
“How can I have a notice to readers that comments are welcome?”
A question you’d want to appear right there on your home page!Some themes do that, but yours does not.
http://writertales.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/on-the-process-of-writing/#commentsYou could write such a link on each post to make sure readers can easily access the comment form.
Or you could add a text widget to explain to your readers how to leave a comment. Click on post title, scroll down to find the comment form…
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So what I’m gathering from all of your great suggestions is that the only way to have a comments form show up below a post is to make sure the post is not on my front page but on a separate page named BLOG.
On my home page I started with a “welcome” post and put it there as a sticky post so it would show up every time someone visits my blog. Unfortunately, not knowing the comments form doesn’t appear on the home page, I added a second post. I was hoping I could move that second post to my new BLOG page, likes and all. But from what I’m gathering, I need to let it go, create a BLOG page and move forward.
Many thanks for all your help!
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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.
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re: creating a static front page
By default the front page of your blog displays all published posts (not pages) in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top. That is for the convenience of your returning visitors, who come to read your latest post, and who are not likely to be happy with being compelled to click through the same static page with the same blah, blah, blah on it every time they visit the blog looking for the latest post.However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, and know that static front pages are traffic killers, then you can create a static front page called for example “Welcome” for your site and a “Blog” page for posts. To do that create two pages first http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
After you do that you go to > Settings > Reading and make the designation change and click “save changes”.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/A static page (select below)
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