Comments on: WordPress anguish

By: Alistair

Alistair — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:02:49 +0000

Sorry that didn't work the way you wanted.

Let me know if you find a solution.

By: Alan Simonds

Alan Simonds — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:13:31 +0000

Just realised, I need to do a bit more investigation. I would like the comments after each post, but not with the add comment box on each one.

Back to the drawing board :-(

By: Alan Simonds

Alan Simonds — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:43:27 +0000

Hi Alistair

Been scouring the net to find an answer to the comment problem for my index page. Your solution worked brilliantly :-)

Thanks for that

By: Alistair

Alistair — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:19:11 +0000

Hey thanks Tom. That was easy! I just added is_single = true; ?> into archive.php, in the while loop, just after getPost(); and it worked a treat. That's the thing with WordPress. You just have to know that stuff. Once you know how to do it it's easy, but unless you happen to know an expert, or you strike lucky while Googling, there seems to be no way of learning how to do a lot of this stuff other than by putting in many, many hours of painful trial and error. Plugins are another pain point in WordPress. I can't tell you how many plugins I've downloaded and installed and they just don't work. The "Subscribe to Comments" plugin seems to be one of those. When I installed it first it did send me an email (so I know it kind of works, given a fair wind, and if the moon is in the correct phase) but it seems like it's not reliable. Anyway, thanks for helping me out with the comments Tom.

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:50:29 +0000

Interesting. I did select Subscribe to Comments, but I never received a follow up email. And this post doesn't seem to have the Subscribe to Comments option, but other posts do. Hmmm.

Re another company taking WordPress' place, I agree that WordPress is frustrating, but it would be hard to best the hundreds of plugins that people have written for it.

I've heard great things about Movable Type, though.

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:44:07 +0000

When I click your Podcast button, it calls on your archive.php file to display the content. If you want your archive.php file to show the comment form, just tweak it in the same way that you tweaked the index.php or home.php files.

For some reason, I thought you had Subscribe to Comments plugin, so I didn't think you'd responded. I just checked back now and saw your response.

Let me know if this works for you.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:09:10 +0000

Hi Tom, Unfortunately it's not fixed. If you click on a category (e.g. Podcasts) you don't see the Comments form at the bottom of each post. I know a lot of people visit my Podcasts page and don't see the Comments form, so don't know they can leave a comment. They need to know that they have to click the post title to display the post on its own page and then scroll down to find the form. I just wanted the Comments form to be shown under each post - no matter what type of page it appears on. If you know how to do this please let me know. But anyway, hey, thanks for the comment! :-)

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:48:14 +0000

By the way, I think people generally know how to leave comments on a blog post -- just click the comments link. I've only had 1 person ever write to me directly asking how they are supposed to leave a comment.

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:44:58 +0000

Alistair, You modified your site correctly -- just log out and you'll see the comments form below each post. At least I see it.