How can I make it easier for my readers to comment on my posts? A box?
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How to make the option of leaving a comment more prominent on my blog?
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I see some of you have a box to leave comments. I do not see this option in my settings. The comment link is currently kind of hidden with the categories and tags.
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At the bottom on the discussion settings on your dashboard (settings – discussion), you can change the wording to something other than ‘leave a comment’. Alternatively change to a different theme that has a more prominent comment message.
The comment box is revealed when the comment link is clicked. That’s the same on all blogs here.
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The way the comments function is coded into the core of WordPress and we cannot change this. Unless you use P2, a twitter-like theme, comments are collapsed on the front page of your blog where our posts are “showcased”. By clicking the post title or the comments link the posts on the front page open on their own page where all comments display.
The reason for this structure is that 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 wish to you can post a notice in your sidebar of the blog instructing visitors to click the comments link or the posts title.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/There is no free way to make “leave a comment” links more prominent. See: http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
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