Title: commenting without a post? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # commenting without a post? * Resolved [deadceasar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadceasar/) * (@deadceasar) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/) * ok, i’ve read through many entries with the same problem (almost) and can’t say that mine directly relates. i’ve built a gallery of artwork on my blog and would like to add the comments template to get feedback, but submitting a comment takes you to that dreaded blank comments-post.php page. comments work perfectly well on any other page that has actual posts, so my question is: can you comment without a post? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674031) * _can you comment without a post?_ Not really. * [Michael Fields](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mfields/) * (@mfields) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674034) * deadceasar, * Hi. My blog is set up the same way as yours and I have the comments working for attachments. I did this by adding `` to my theme’s‘ attachment.php’ template file. Most theme’s actually do not come with this file, but I would say that it is a necessary part of any blog who uses the image uploading capability of WordPress. * The reason that this works is that (in the wordpress database) posts, pages and attachments are all stored in the same table. I believe that you can add comments to all of them. * Check it out here: [mfields.org](http://mfields.org/art/pieces/nelly-the-elephant/) * Thread Starter [deadceasar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadceasar/) * (@deadceasar) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674035) * come on, moshu! there’s got to be a way. do you suppose that scripting a different template php would work? not that i would be able to do such a task with my current understanding of the language. * Thread Starter [deadceasar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadceasar/) * (@deadceasar) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674038) * mfields, * i’ll look into the attachment method. i noticed previous themes that i’ve used had that file, but i’ve customized my current theme from top to bottom and no longer have it. thanks for the reply! * nice imagination you have there! * Thread Starter [deadceasar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadceasar/) * (@deadceasar) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674045) * ummm, unless i’m misunderstanding the attachment.php, this is solely for inserting images from the Write admin panel. no? My gallery isn’t set up that way. All images are hard-coded with -a hrefs- (and some serious hover and span action also). * click on a panel and check out the source: [http://mcgrewsmusings.com/?page_id=180](http://mcgrewsmusings.com/?page_id=180) * sorry if i’m just ignorant. * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674049) * ?page_id=180 * That means that is [Page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages). Pages also can be commented – just have the call for the comments template. * Thread Starter [deadceasar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadceasar/) * (@deadceasar) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674052) * moshu, * i did that and it led me to this investigation. i thought i had previously made it known this was a page and not a post. sorry for the confusion. anyway, i temporarily put the call back into this page so you can maybe better understand. who knows, maybe it will work for you, but it sure a hell ain’t workin’ for me. * [http://mcgrewsmusings.com/?page_id=190](http://mcgrewsmusings.com/?page_id=190) * edit– i’m assuming all i need is the single call for the template, yes? * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674055) * You call it in the wrong place. It has to be done in the Loop. Look at other themes where it is. * Thread Starter [deadceasar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadceasar/) * (@deadceasar) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674062) * sorry moshu, that doesn’t help me much. reading up on The Loop speaks only about calling posts, which i don’t have any. could you possibly point out where my ‘ Loop’ is in the page provided? * what you said was the wrong place is exactly where i put it in my single post. php (which works). i just don’t get it, man. * [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * (@moshu) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674064) * Paste your Page template file to [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca) and post back with the url. * Thread Starter [deadceasar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadceasar/) * (@deadceasar) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674065) * link’s busted. i can’t get in. i’ll have to work up a new page template to get the code to you, unless you have an alternate route. * Thread Starter [deadceasar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadceasar/) * (@deadceasar) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674066) * nevermind. this is more trouble than it’s worth. * [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/) * (@kafkaesqui) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674068) * Wow, you give up easy. * Try posting the source of your template here: * [http://wordpress.pastebin.com/](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/) * or if that is down too: * [http://paste.uni.cc/](http://paste.uni.cc/) * (Note to watchers: we really need our own pastebin…) * Thread Starter [deadceasar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadceasar/) * (@deadceasar) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674070) * it’s not that i’m giving up, but rather it’s getting late here and i have an early start in the morning. anyway, here are the links you’ll need. * thanks for all your help, by the way. * Misc gallery.php [http://paste.uni.cc/17960](http://paste.uni.cc/17960) * Single Post.php [http://paste.uni.cc/17961](http://paste.uni.cc/17961) * Blog [http://mcgrewsmusings.com/](http://mcgrewsmusings.com/) * –edit– scratch that, i forgot i took the template out of the gallery. here’s the revision: [http://paste.uni.cc/17962](http://paste.uni.cc/17962) * Thread Starter [deadceasar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadceasar/) * (@deadceasar) * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/commenting-without-a-post/#post-674167) * fyi, i went back over the Loop business and understand it much more now. all i needed in my page was the essential parts (the if an the while); deleting everything else (post title, date, content, tags, etc). * thanks for the spotlight, moshu. and the links, k-man. 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