Enabling Comments on Home Page
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I’m unable to have comments displayed on my “Home” page where my blogs are posted, but somehow, they are on my “About” page. I’ve tried every sort of edit that the troubleshooting prompts have led me through, and still I am unable to get a comment box to appear beneath my blog posts. 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.
All new WordPress.COM blog have comments open on all Pages and Posts. 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.
re: enabling and disabling comments
You can enable and disable comments on free hosted WordPress.com blogs on this page > Settings > Discussion Discussion settings is where you set up defaults for comments.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/You can override the default settings and enable or disable future comments on any individual post or page.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/comments and pingbacks enabled http://en.support.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/discussion-metabox.png?w=688
comments and pingbacks disabled
https://support.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/module-toggle1.png?w=688See also for faster ways:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/comments-off-1/Important Note: By default, new blogs on WordPress.com will have the Discussion hidden. You can reveal it by clicking on Screen Options http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/ on the top right corner of your Admin page, and checking the box that says Discussion so the module is included. http://en.support.wordpress.com/modules/#list-of-modules
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