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WordPress How to Make a Website with WordPress Customizing WordPress Themes Customizing WordPress Theme Files

William Guth
William Guth
1,570 Points
Posted by William Guth
William Guth
1,570 Points

No Comments section on my page to begin with

I am not able to follow along with this demo in that there is no comments section on my pages, in my 2013 child theme or parent theme to comment out. Does it matter that I used the 1 button install, rather than a manual install of Wordpress? How otherwise, might my original page.php file be different than the demo?

2 Answers

Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points
Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points

Are you looking at a page or a post? You might need to go to the Edit Page section for that page, and then click on screen options -> Discussion and then Allow Comments. I just tested this on my local WP theme test box.

William Guth
William Guth
1,570 Points
William Guth
William Guth
1,570 Points

I greatly appreciate this response. I was totally unaware of the Screen Options menu, thank you for pointing that out. Even after I updated those options, and the comment area was revealed on my pages, the page.php item I was working with was was not affecting change on the site. I had downloaded that page.php from the project Downloads on the Treehouse site. But, when I went back to the parent theme folder, grabbed that page.php, made the adjustments and uploaded to the child theme folder, the update was successful. Pettway for the save!

Luke Pettway
Luke Pettway
16,593 Points

Glad you got it working! It through me for a loop for a second too and then I remember that sometimes pages aren't set to have comments on by default.

Jill Ferron
Jill Ferron
5,023 Points
Jill Ferron
Jill Ferron
5,023 Points

Thanks that answer was very useful to me as well ! I would add that the "Scree options" button only appears when you are in full screen mode, below your login on the top right hand corner.