Per-Post Comments Options
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OK, I’ve searched everywhere and read every guide… Is there a way to put the option for “Comments” from readers after each Post? (and/or Page addition?). Right now it seems the only place for a reader to Comment is only after the first/original Post in that Category. How can I offer Comments after each Post or is there a way? Thanks!!
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I am not certain what you are asking. It sounds like you want readers to be able to reply directly to other readers’ comments, and you want such a reply to appear directly after the comment to which it refers; rather than a single unstructured line of comments where each comment is just placed at the end in turn.
If that is correct, the setting you need is for “threaded comments”. It is on the Settings->Discussion page in the second group of options (Other comment settings). It is a check-box called “Enable threaded (nested) comments ____ levels deep”. In place of the blank there is a dropdown menu for the number of levels (WordPress recommends 3, and that seems to be the practical maximum for most themes).
If you check this option, in addition to the general Reply form for the original post, each comment will have an individual “Reply” link associated with it. Replies to a comment are displayed indented under the comment to which they refer, so some discussions end up with a tree-structure of replies to reples to replies.
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@ascendingthematrix
Your comments issue is directly related to what you have done on your blog. Your “Recent Posts” page is not a “posts” page that will display your posts in reverse chronological order. It is a standard page that you keep adding things to. You need to read and understand this support entry: http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/There is only one running page for posts in a blog. If you want your “Most Recent Posts” page to be the running page for posts and have it display posts in reverse chronological order like a standard blog page, then you have to set that page as the “posts” page here Srttings > Reading.
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I made my question too complicated: I understand the Comments threads. (thank you!) On the question of posting Comments to Static Pages, that’s cool… I can understand why that can’t be done; I didn’t think there was a way to do that… was just hoping.
My question, to be more specific is: Is there a way readers can post a Comment directly below the post they like? Right now, the only place for reader Comments is way back under the very first post… so I don’t really know which post they’re responding to. Is there a way to be sure a Comments box/field/option is included for every new Post? I appreciate your help! Thanks -
You don’t have any posts on your site. All your links in the navigation are to pages. No posts!!
Readers can comment on individual posts. They cannot comment on paragraphs or chapters or section of a page: they can comment only on the page as a whole.
Please read this link as timethief posted:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/
Understanding the difference between posts and pages is crucial to organizing your blog to make it useful for readers and for SEO juice. -
No, wait. You do have posts on your site liked to in your sidebar via “monthly archives” or categories.
The items in your top nav bar are all pages.
I think you are trying to write about different topics and post them to different pages, right?
You cannot do that. To organize your blog, you need to make posts. And on each post put it into a category.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/Once you have done that, you can use your category widget for readers to find your articles.
Or you can make a custom menu to link to some (or all) of your categories.
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I just got my question figured out… don’t I feel stupid?!! Thanks for all you your feedback you guys! Appreciate it!
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