showing comments?

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  willowpaints · Member · Mar 6, 2012 at 2:19 am

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  Hello forum smarties,
  I want the comments to show up for my new blog http://badmommybook.wordpress.com/ right when you look at the blog.
  I can’t figure out how to do this! You have to click on the comments to show them. Am I missing something?
  Is there another theme that would allow me to keep the comments open to perusal? I am open to changing themes is I can have comments show right off the bat.
  It’s really important for this blog to have interactive and visible comments as people are writing in their “confessions.”
  thanks in advance!

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 6, 2012 at 3:34 am

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  There is absolutely no way to do this on a WordPress.com blog. The comments are NEVER visible on the main page.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 6, 2012 at 4:23 am

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  This question is often asked in the forums and raincoaster has given you the sharp answer.

  For a bit more clarification please read this explanation about why it would be impractical:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/comments-on-homepage-expand?replies=4#post-833155

  Your front page is designed to show your posts. That is how blogs work!

  Consider how difficult it would be for readers to find what you have written if you had 25, 50, or 100 comments. They would have to scroll down, down, down to view the next post.

  You can use a “recent comments” widgets so your readers can see a reasonable number of the newest comments—it links automatically to the posts where comments were made.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 6, 2012 at 4:28 am

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  Another bit of advice is that if you get a clever/funny/provoking/interesting comment, then put it in a text widget in your sidebar.

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  willowpaints · Member · Mar 6, 2012 at 5:04 am

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  thanks you guys…you totally rock!