How to add post comment form below wordpress post
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Hey,
How do I add a post comment form below a wordpress post? Currently I have a blog and with the theme I’m using, it only says ‘Leave a comment’ in small writing at the top of the post. When you click that, a comment form appears at the bottom of the post. I want this comment form to appear automatically when you first view the post. How can i do this?
Please get back to me.
Thanks
Esh
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It doesn’t, and at WordPress.com the comments form is not visible from the front page of the blog except on the P2 Theme. It’s not configurable.
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on wordpress.org can we get a theme where the comments, word for word, show up beneath the post for all to see and respond to?
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We are, of course, fully aware of what can be done on wordpress.ORG installs because we have them as well as our free hosted wordpress.COM blogs.
Please read raincoaster’s answer again and understand that if this is a deal breaker for you then you will have to hire a web host and self host a wordpress.ORG install.
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You need to consider that if you happen to get a lot of comments on a post, then your visitors are going to have to scroll down a long ways in order to see the next post if comments were displayed on the main blog page. There are several blogs I visit that can have 50 to 100 comments on them before the post is even 24 hours old, and even 20 comments can be a real issue.
You can use the P2 theme which will give you the ability to show comments on the main page, but as I suggest above, it can quickly become unwieldy and messy. P2 does give you the ability to show a comment “toggle” link on the main page where people can click it and see the comments.
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Please see the sticky post at the head of this forum.
WordPress.com or WordPress.org ? The difference.
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On wordpress.ORG blogs, you can do anything you want. Your only limitations will be your knowledge of PHP scripting as that is what all wordpress themes are written in.
If you are thinking of “hacking” something together, but do not have a very good knowledge of PHP scripting and the security issues involved, you can easily create large holes for nefarious types to use to break or infiltrate your blog. Of course if you self-host, then that is your problem.
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One note on P2: It is a very strange and bizarre beast of a theme and not everything works as one would expect. It is a mutant.
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A slight variant of the original question: Is there a way to have the “Leave a comment” link at the bottom of the post rather than at the top? Visitors to my blog often can’t find where to click to leave a comment or post on my previous blog post because they are used to the “leave a comment” link being at the bottom of the post. (Not the form, just the link)
Is this something varies between WP.com themes? I am currently using Spring Loaded (and love it except for this issue).
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Is there a way to have the “Leave a comment” link at the bottom of the post rather than at the top?
No that I am aware of. In wordpress blogs we click blog titles and comment boxes appear below our posts, except for in P2 which TSP has already addressed.
If you wish you could place a text widget at the top of your sidebar with a notice in it to let your readers know this or you could create a sticky post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
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@melodydgreen, yes it is theme specific. Each theme here for the most part is designed by an independent theme author, and as such they each make their own decisions as to how they are going to lay things out.
As far as moving the “leave a comment” link to the top of the post, in some cases that can be done, but in some it cannot. It all depends on how the designer organized and nested those particular divs in the underlying theme files.
At the very least it would require some CSS editing experience and the paid CSS upgrade, if it is possible with your chosen theme.
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