Lost all Comments on my Home Page
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Help,
Since yesterday 07/12/2015 all Comments, including one posted today 08/12/2015, which should be published on my Home page have gone missing. Can you check it out for me please. They are still listed, behind the scenes, in the Comments section of my Dashboard.
My site is http://www.aturnofthekey.comThank you
BrianThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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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.
If you are concerned readers will not find the comments section you can use a text widget to tell them how to do that and place it at the top of your sidebar. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
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 who will not be happy to have to click through an About page every time they visit your blog as they come to read your most recently published content. Creating that situation can make some visitors annoyed – so annoyed that they stop following your blog.
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 all published posts (not pages) to display on in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published post on top.
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 for each of the two page and click “save changes”.
A static page (select below)
Front page:
Posts page:The guide for creating a static front page is here http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/
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Hello timethief.
My website has been set up, since April 2014, with the Home page as a Static page and Comments enabled for publication on this page – limited to a list of 25 on display.
Since then I have had 216 Comments published on the Home page – visible to all – up to and including yesterday ( plus one more today). No-one can see any of these Comments now although none of my settings have been altered .
I still do not understand what has gone wrong. -
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Hi @theattendantnurse, do you still need help? I can see lots of comments on the front page, plus an “Older Comments” link. Do you get that too?
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Hello supernovia.
Problem appears to be resolved – whatever it was – all working ok now.
Thanks very much, to all. -
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