enabling comment count and "add a comment" on Expound theme

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  wattsupwiththat · Member · Aug 25, 2014 at 5:38 am

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  Hello,

  I just switched to expound theme after years of being on 2010. Overall it is good, but users are complaining that they are missing the comment count and “leave a comment” on the list of entries on the front page.

  And, they are right.

  And, the time has gone from a specific date/time to a pretty useless x hours ago.

  Based on research, I tried adding this in my custom CSS upgrade:

  .entry-meta { display: all; }

  and it had no effect.

  I’m a CSS noob, so I’m pretty well lost now.

  How can I get the comment count, “Leave a comment” and a useful time stamp back on entries displayed on the main page?

  I’m sure it is just matter of turning the right CSS on, but I can’t even find my original CSS for the site to scan it and make a change.

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

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Aug 26, 2014 at 7:57 pm

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  Hi Anthony,

  You can show the date by adding this to your CSS by going to Appearance > Customize > CSS:

  a.entry-date span {
  	display: inline !important;
  }

  As for the comment count, I was able to see it as seen here:

  

  on this example post:

  Burning Man Festival washed out due to 'surprise rain'

  Let me know if you have any questions with this!

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  wattsupwiththat · Member · Aug 26, 2014 at 8:07 pm

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  Hello Grace,

  Thanks for the response.

  The CSS code:

  a.entry-date span {
  display: inline !important;
  }

  is a partial solution, thank you, but leaves out the time stamp. I tried changing to “a.entry-time” to no avail.

  I think you may have misinterpreted what I meant by “comment counts”.

  I was referring to the common practice in themes where you typical see this on the main page below each story entry:

  Posted on August 26th 11:03AM By Anthony Watts – 27 comments

  That is the comment count I was referring to.

  Expound has done a great job for me, no complaints except that small details like this have gone missing from previous themes I’ve worked with.

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  wattsupwiththat · Member · Aug 26, 2014 at 8:22 pm

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  Grace, ignore part of my last response. I had thought there was a time-stamp in the 2010 theme. My bad. Just a date stamp.

  My query about adding back in the comment count on that meta footer still stands though. Many people want to click on that link to be taken straight to comments section, especially if they are following discussion.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Aug 26, 2014 at 9:03 pm

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  My query about adding back in the comment count on that meta footer still stands though.

  Unfortunately, this hasn’t been designed into the Expound theme. I have reported this to the theme developer for review.

  Cheers!