Title: cannot enable comments!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# cannot enable comments!

 *  [boboboi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boboboi/)
 * (@boboboi)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-enable-comments/)
 * Here is my problem: the site I am working on has been running for over a year
   now; many pages and posts have been added to the site. Recently my client has
   requested I add a new page and only allow comments to be made on that page and
   the posts within that page. However, after enabling comments by adding <?php 
   comments_template(); ?> in my theme’s page.php file every single page and post
   had the comment box activated. Fortunately this forum was able to help me deactivate
   comments for the entire site by using phpMyAdmin and running these two lines:
 * UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status=’closed’ WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ AND
   post_type = ‘post’;
 * UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status=’closed’ WHERE post_status = ‘publish’ AND
   post_type = ‘page’;
 * I was then told I could individually check off “allow comments” for the individual
   posts I want. However, when I do that, the comment box still does not show up.
   Any help would be much appreciated!

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 *  Thread Starter [boboboi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boboboi/)
 * (@boboboi)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-enable-comments/#post-1300679)
 * bump, does anyone have any idea what could be wrong?
 *  [ecomod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecomod/)
 * (@ecomod)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-enable-comments/#post-1300932)
 * Another bump. I’m having this problem also. Only one post is affected, all others
   are commentable. I’m unable to enable the comment ability for that one post even
   though I did all of the above.
 * I’m using WP 3.0.1.
 * Help?

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 * [Comments](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comments/)
 * [enable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/enable/)
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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [ecomod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ecomod/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-enable-comments/#post-1300932)
 * Status: not resolved

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