As you may have noticed, if you use WordPress’s default theme, “Kubrick”, the comments form does not show up on pages even when you have the option switched-on for a page. I regard this as a theme bug. I fixed it by adding the PHP call to WordPress’s comments function to the bottom of the page.php file.
I did this with WordPress v2.3.3, and have no idea if it will work with other versions. Be careful when editing theme files. Make sure to download a copy of the file first with your FTP program so that you can upload it again if something goes wrong. If you blow up your blog, it’s not my fault.
Steps:
- Go to your admin panel
- Click Presentation
- Click Theme Editor
- Make sure that “WordPress Default” is selected
- Click the “Page Template” link
- Make sure that you are editing “page.php”
- Find this line near the bottom: <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
- Right below it, enter this: <?php comments_template(); ?>
- That tells WordPress to add the comments form.
- This is code, so each and every character must be typed exactly.
I don’t have a lot of comments on this site, so this hasn’t been battle tested. Let me know how it works for you.
I accidentally hit the “spam” button on this comment instead of the “approve” button. Will look into the problem later:
Hi,
Just wondering if your RSS feed works for you. I try loading up http://www.trivisonno.com/feed and I get a page with this:
XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
Location: http://www.trivisonno.com/feed
Line Number 29, Column 1:
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Anyway, nice work on the tax withholding data. If you hadn’t noticed, got picked up on thebigpicture.com.
Cheers,
You were right; the feeds were broken, but they are fixed now. I left some blank lines at the end of a plugin that I wrote, and WordPress went berserk. Thanks for the heads-up.
Matt