Let users comment on categories in WordPress

Question

I'm working with a client who wants visitors to be able to post comments on categories instead of on individual posts, but I am unsure on how to go about it. Is it possible to display the comment form in a category? Just pasting in <?php comments_template(); ?> didn't do it, unfortunately.

Answer 1

For all I know, that's not possible, since comments depend on a Post ID to exist.

You can, however, mimic that functionality by registering a post_type to be at the same time, attached to one specific category, and parent their comments.

Then you can insert a secondary query on your comments.php to fetch the post_type entry associated with the current category and display its comments by that category's posts.

Answer 2

i have found this answer here tried it and it worked for a clean template i expriment on

here is the code:

<?php
$wp_query->is_single = true;
comments_template('/comments-slide.php');
$wp_query->is_single = false;
?>

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Hope this helps... Sagive

p.s - i would read the original answer to learn more