Comments on Book Pages

What theme are you using?

Comments are a function of the theme not the plugin. Try disabling “compatibility mode” this gives the theme more control over the page.

Are you wanting book reviews? Because if that is the case I would recommend using the GoodReads integration instead.

We do not have comments in the ‘supports’ option because most of the users we have actively do not want comments to show up on their book pages.

However, editing the plugin directly is not recommended, as it will be overwritten by future plugin updates, and it is important to keep your plugins updated to keep your site secure. The recommended way to change something like this is by using the MyBookTable template system, which you can read more about on our wiki here: https://github.com/authormedia/mybooktable/wiki/Template-System-Overview

You will probably want to insert a call to comments_template(); into the single-book/content.php template in order to achieve the effect you want.

~Tim

We know because we have had many more support requests from people asking how to remove comments from their book pages. Many themes do not properly look at the ‘supports’ value and show the comments anyway, which many of our users have found undesirable.

We have a “decisions not options” policy for our plugin, following the WordPress Philosophy. We actively try to keep the plugin as simple and easy to use as possible for new users, which sometimes means leaving out options that only a few of our users will ever want. As it is currently, this is something that would help very few people and would confuse many more, since like I said the ‘supports’ value is not always even used properly by themes. We do, however, want to allow the full range of flexibility to advanced users, and support whatever kind of customization you need via custom PHP development, as I said.