Title: Enable Comments Not Working
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Enable Comments Not Working

 *  [actionbasic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/actionbasic/)
 * (@actionbasic)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-comments-not-working/)
 * Hi all. Sorry to be a pain but I am about to pull my hair out. I removed the 
   comment PHP code from my index.php and archive.php from my theme (Blue Zinfindel)
   and now I need to add them back. We would like to have comments on certain posts.
   Problem is this: no matter what I do, the Leave Comment link will not show up.
   When I check the HTML for the pages or a post, the PHP code to enable the Leave
   Comment link is gone. How would this get removed? Is there anything I might have
   changed that would cause WordPress to remove this code? I have searched now for
   hours on this and can’t find anything. My site is here: [http://www.detour-mag.com](http://www.detour-mag.com)
 * Thanks in advance. You all rock.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-comments-not-working/#post-586093)
 * Individual posts use the single.php template file to be displayed. Do you have
   one? If yes, you should edit that file.
 *  Thread Starter [actionbasic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/actionbasic/)
 * (@actionbasic)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-comments-not-working/#post-586095)
 * Moshu,
 * Me theme uses the files page.php and index.php. I have added the proper code 
   to both many times. The ONLY thing that will not show up is the Leave Comment
   link. And when I post it, the php call tags for the comment code are gone!
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-comments-not-working/#post-586100)
 * Hmm… earlier you were mentioning other files, too (“index.php and archive.php”).
   Anyway, if no single.php – WP is using the index to display the single posts.
 * So, all you have to edit is the index file.
    How do you edit the template files?
   The normal way to do it: you open it on your computer in a plain text editor 
   and after editing, upload it via FTP.
 *  Thread Starter [actionbasic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/actionbasic/)
 * (@actionbasic)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-comments-not-working/#post-586103)
 * Moshu,
 * I am editing in Dreamweaver. I’m pretty comfortable working in code and such,
   and I’m quite certain I am placing the code correctly, but it still does not 
   show up. If I paste code into either page.php, archive.php or index.php that 
   calls the catagory, edit post and leave comment, everything shows great but leave
   comment. And I am using known-good code from this site and from the original 
   theme. Is there anything on the WordPress side that might be causing it? This
   is making me nuts! As I said comments were working as they should when I started
   building. I removed the tags to pull in that “leave comment” link and now as 
   I said it keeps disappearing.
 *  Thread Starter [actionbasic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/actionbasic/)
 * (@actionbasic)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-comments-not-working/#post-586104)
 * Is there something in WordPress that would make it not read the comment code 
   and delete it? This is exactly what seems to be happening. thanks again for all
   the help.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-comments-not-working/#post-586120)
 * Let’s reverse that question: is there anything – plugin – in your WP install 
   that would interfere with the display of the comment code? Do you have a comments.
   php in the theme folder?
    (I hope you edit the files in DW in “code mode” not
   as wysiwyg!)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-comments-not-working/#post-586120)
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