Personal theme fatal flaw
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I really like the Personal theme. I purchased it about a month or two ago, and it was then that I noticed its fatal flaw. There is no link at all on the home page to comments. None. Anyone looking at the blog via its home page would think it does not allow comments, which is exactly what a number of people emailed me when I switched briefly to that theme. “I can’t leave a comment!”
About a week into it, I canceled and got a refund.
I just checked the theme and see it still has no comment link on the home page. I imagine this would be easy to repair. Yet nobody does it. It is a fatal flaw, in my estimation. Too bad because it’s a beautiful theme.
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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.
No matter which theme you use, by clicking the post title on the front page the posts open on their own page where the comment box appears and where all approved comments display.
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I know you can click on the post title and finally get to the comments. But how many passersby know that? When I briefly switched to that theme is when I got emails asking what happened to comments. I have done the trial run on lots of themes, and I do not recall but one other one that had no link at all on the home page. Not good. And all it takes is a little, bitty thing that says “comments” somewhere. It should be on the home page. That it’s not seems nutty to me. I, for one, would not have asked for a refund had there been a comments link on the home page. I cannot imagine I am the only person to find this a big deal. Blogs are, with rare exception, all about comments.
Well, no matter. I have moved on. I sure bet the developer of that theme would see his or her bank account grow were it not for this big boo-boo.
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But how many passersby know that?
You can use a text widget in your sidebar to advise readers of that if you wish.
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Had not thought of that one. But yes, there are ways to work around it. I had a “page” in the header that said “comments,” and if you clicked on it, there was an explanation that you had to click on the headline first, and then the comments appeared.
But that’s lots of bother when the Home Page simply should have a comments link like 98 percent of the themes have.
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