How to enable comments on the main page?

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    mikalofgren · Member ·

    How to enable comments on main page
    I have “enabled” the comments for my main page named Home. But the “Leave reply” won’t get visible on the page. I’m able to enable those to all other pages (page by page). But for some reason, not for the main one. What makes this more strange is that a friend of mine in Sweden added a comment on that page. He says he had the commenting field there. I have asked from my friends here in Finland if they see the commenting field – they do not. Any idea what could cause this?

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    timethief · Member ·

    By clicking the post title or the comments link or comments bubble the posts on the front page open on their own page where all comments display. The way your theme and blog are functioning is the norm. Unless you use the P2 theme which is a Twitter-like theme, know that the front pages of our blogs “showcase content” and comments are collapsed on that page. You cannot change this. The way the comments function is coded into the core of WordPress.

    All WordPress blogs by default have comments open on all Pages and Posts. Your visitors click the post tiles or the comment links or comment bubbles on the front page of the blog and they are directed to the full post appearing on it’s own page where the comment boxes appear at the end of the posts.

    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/
    See 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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    mikalofgren · Member ·

    Well the theme is “The Twenty Eleven”. There is no post title or the comments link or comments bubble on the front page as can be seen here https://micaphotographics.wordpress.com/

    I managed to get the list of recent comments to all pages by adding the Recent comments widget. But that shows only the list (who has commented and on which page), not the content of the comments.

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    timethief · Member ·

    If there is no pôst titles appearing here https://micaphotographics.wordpress.com/ ie. that is intended to be the front page of your blog, then that means you created a static front page and failed to create another page for posts to appear on.

    You have two choices on any blog
    (1) All posts on the front page.
    (2) A static front page and posts on a different 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.

    However, if you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, 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)
    Front page:
    Posts page:

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