I can't view or add comments

Question

Hey, there. I just got this site up and going. http://www.paledogstudios.com It works fine except for the fact I can't seem to see past comments (this blog was imported from blogger) or add comments.

I know it's the code not the settings since someone else told me but he didn't help me further.

He said it was probably on the index.php

Help?

Answer 1

It appears that your posts titles do not link to the single post pages, they link to the archive page. By example, the lastest article "It really is that small" links to "http://www.paledogstudios.com/2010/10/04/".

The error should be in your theme index.php file.

Answer 2

From the looks of things, you're missing a call to comments_template() in your files. I wouldn't recommend putting this in index.php (that's the file that generates your entire list of blogs ... listing comments there would make your page huge).

What you want to do is add <?php comments_template(); ?> in your single.php file (the template file for Single Posts) before <?php endwhile; ?>.

So an example from the TwentyTen theme:

    </div><!-- #post-## -->

    <div id="nav-below" class="navigation">
        <div class="nav-previous"><?php previous_post_link( '%link', '<span class="meta-nav">' . _x( '&larr;', 'Previous post link', 'twentyten' ) . '</span> %title' ); ?></div>
        <div class="nav-next"><?php next_post_link( '%link', '%title <span class="meta-nav">' . _x( '&rarr;', 'Next post link', 'twentyten' ) . '</span>' ); ?></div>
    </div><!-- #nav-below -->

    <?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

You can see they're placing the comment block after contextual navigation but before the loop closes. This is what you'll want to do in your own theme as well.