Title: Comment form missing
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comment form missing

 *  [amanda1973](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amanda1973/)
 * (@amanda1973)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-missing/)
 * After upgrading from WP1.2 to 1.5.2, none of my posts have a comment form. [Here’s
   a [sample page](http://www.speakspeak.org/speak-blog/?p=1188#comments).]
 * Spammers are having no problem commenting, though, because I’m getting one moderation
   request every three or four minutes.
 * How do I get the comment form back?

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 *  [techwench](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techwench/)
 * (@techwench)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-missing/#post-266123)
 * In your theme file, you’ll have to add:
 * `<?php comments_template(); ?>`
 * where you want the comments to go.
 *  Thread Starter [amanda1973](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amanda1973/)
 * (@amanda1973)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-missing/#post-266125)
 * In the index.php file within the folder of the theme I’m using, the above line
   is already there. Does it need to be somewhere else?
 * `<div class="post">
    <h3 class="storytitle" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href
   ="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title();?
   >"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3> <div class="meta"><?php _e("Filed under"); ?
   > <?php the_category(); ?>&nbsp;by <?php the_author(); ?> — <?php the_time('m/
   d/Y'); ?> @ <?php the_time(); ?> <?php edit_post_link(); ?></div> <div class="
   storycontent"> <?php the_content(); ?> </div> <div class="feedback"> <?php wp_link_pages();?
   > <?php comments_popup_link(__('Comments (0)'), __('Comments (1)'), __('Comments(%)'));?
   > </div> <!-- <?php trackback_rdf(); ?> --> <?php comments_template(); ?> <---------
   </div> <?php endforeach; else: ?> <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.');?
   ></p> <?php endif; ?> </div>
 *  [techwench](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techwench/)
 * (@techwench)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-missing/#post-266129)
 * Do you also have a single.php and/or page.php? If you do, it’ll need to go in
   there.
 *  Thread Starter [amanda1973](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amanda1973/)
 * (@amanda1973)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-missing/#post-266131)
 * There’s a page-new.php in wp-admin. Is that the one you mean? The entire document
   consists of the code below:
 * `<?php
    require_once('admin.php'); $title = __('New Page'); $parent_file = 'post.
   php'; require_once('admin-header.php');
 * get_currentuserinfo();
    ?>
 * <?php if ( isset($_GET['saved']) ) : ?>
    <div class="updated"><p><strong><?php
   _e('Page saved.') ?> <a href="edit-pages.php"><?php _e('Manage pages'); ?> &raquo;
   </a></strong></p></div> <?php endif; ?>
 * <?php
    if ($user_level > 0) { $action = 'post'; get_currentuserinfo(); //set 
   defaults $post_status = 'static'; $comment_status = get_settings('default_comment_status');
   $ping_status = get_settings('default_ping_status'); $post_pingback = get_settings('
   default_pingback_flag'); $post_parent = 0; $page_template = 'default';
 *  include('edit-page-form.php');
    } ?>
 * <?php include('admin-footer.php'); ?>
 *  [techwench](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techwench/)
 * (@techwench)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-missing/#post-266148)
 * No, don’t edit anything in wp-admin. Or in wp-includes, for that matter.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [techwench](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techwench/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-missing/#post-266148)
 * Status: not resolved

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