How to move comments from sidebar to main part of page
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I cannot find a way to move ‘Comments’ from the widget ‘Recent Comments’ in a sidebar to being more prominently displayed just under the text of each post. Does the Misty Lake layout allow for that?
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Hello, I am a fellow Word Press customer, not a staff member. But it may help for you to check out this: https://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments-for-future-posts-pages/.
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move ‘Comments … to being more prominently displayed just under the text of each post.
Widgets display only in sidebar areas and footer areas provided for them.
Unless you use the P2 theme which is a Twitter-like theme, the front pages of our blogs showcase content and comments are collapsed on that page. 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. You cannot change this.
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.
Additional information
Comments on posts and pages are enabled by default on all WordPress blogs. However, you can enable and disable comments on WordPress.com blogs on this page Dashboard > Settings > Discussion
That is where you set up defaults for comments and other comment options 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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Many thanks to both of you, I am sure these will help me to understand this better and what limitations there are.
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