no comments allowed on blog?

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  truthinreligionandpolitics · Member · Dec 6, 2013 at 4:10 pm

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  The comments section have disappeared from posts, no one can comment on new posts since yesterday. No settings have been changed

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  timethief · Member · Dec 6, 2013 at 4:15 pm

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  Hello there,
  Please confirm that your settings are correctly set. All WordPress blogs by default have comments open on all Pages and 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/

  Any existing posts or pages will need to have comments disabled manually via editing. You can use the bulk edit feature in the all posts and all pages screen to make that quicker.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/
  See also http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/comments-off-1/ under “Faster way” and “Even faster”

  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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  truthinreligionandpolitics · Member · Dec 6, 2013 at 4:17 pm

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  Timethief, Ive been writing this blog for 3 years. No settings have been changed. Everything is set to ‘on’

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  timethief · Member · Dec 6, 2013 at 4:18 pm

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  I suspected that so I had already tagged this thread for Staff attention.

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  truthinreligionandpolitics · Member · Dec 6, 2013 at 4:25 pm

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  I had to manually go to all posts and quick edit to allow comments

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  timethief · Member · Dec 6, 2013 at 4:27 pm

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  Thanks for reporting back how you resolved this. I’m leaving the tagging for Staff as this maybe an issue that impacted more than one blog.

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Dec 6, 2013 at 9:01 pm

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  Hi there,

  I took a quick look at your blog, and I could not see anything obvious that would cause this issue to happen.

  I had to manually go to all posts and quick edit to allow comments

  Did you go through all of your posts and renable comments on them manually (after you discovered that comments were not appearing) or are there any posts on your blog that do not have comments enabled still?

  If yes, can you share a URL to one of the affected posts? I am happy to take a closer look.

  Thanks for the additional info!

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  truthinreligionandpolitics · Member · Dec 7, 2013 at 1:53 am

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  I didnt have to go through all the others, just the two newest. Its not that comments didnt appear, comments were turned off for those posts so people could not comment. through the ‘edit post’ screen, I was able to leave a comment which did appear in the comment section when you viewed the post through the site as a visitor would.

  When I went to ‘all posts’ and did a ‘quick edit’, the ‘allow comments’ box was unchecked for the 2 newest posts. After I checked the boxes, all worked fine.

  no settings were changed under ‘settings > discussion’

  This post –>> http://siftingreality.com/2013/12/05/christianity-is-so-offensive-we-dare-not-speak-it/ was the first to not allow comments, but after manually allowing comments, it seems to work OK.

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Dec 7, 2013 at 2:03 am

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  Thanks for the additional info John. In my testing, I was not able to duplicate the issue. If I can ask a follow-up question, when you originally made your recent posts, did you do so from the dashboard of your site, the post tool on the WordPress.com homepage, post by email, or another method?

  Thanks!

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  truthinreligionandpolitics · Member · Dec 7, 2013 at 9:12 pm

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  Both posts were published from the android app from my phone. This is the ordinary way I publish.

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Dec 7, 2013 at 10:41 pm

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  Thanks for the additional info! Please let me know if it happens next time you publish, or if it is now working as expected.

  Cheers

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 8, 2013 at 2:15 pm

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  @jerry there are multiple reports of this on several different themes today.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 8, 2013 at 5:24 pm

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  Here’s a fix https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-comments-are-enabled-in-the-discussion-section-but-they-still-appear-closed?replies=5#post-1552510

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  truthinreligionandpolitics · Member · Dec 29, 2013 at 1:15 pm

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  I posted on this a while back. When I publish my posts, randomly it seems, comments will not be allowed. I have to manually go to ALL POSTS –> QUICK EDIT –> ALLOW COMMENTS.

  It’s not all the time but about every other one. It doesnt seem to matter whether I publish from the mobile app or straight from the web browser dashboard.

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  truthinreligionandpolitics · Member · Dec 29, 2013 at 1:17 pm

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  raincoaster, that isnt a fix to my issue. Its not that there is a malfunctioning visable comment box, the comments are turned off for random posts and I have to manually turn them on after they are published.

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Dec 31, 2013 at 3:56 pm

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  Hi John,

  Do you have a post on your site now that is having this problem? If not, can you let me know next time you get a post with comments turned off?

  Thanks