Title: Enable reply
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Enable reply

 *  Resolved [huynhlv54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/huynhlv54/)
 * (@huynhlv54)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-reply/)
 * I’m using version 20140930. It installed smoothly and works as intended.
    However,
   how do I enable comments (replies) for user submitted pages? For the pages I 
   created, there is a “Leave a reply” field, but for posts by guests, there is 
   no such field.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-submitted-posts/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-submitted-posts/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-reply/#post-5469521)
 * That depends on your theme. I suggest taking a look at how it works when using
   one of the default WordPress themes, like Twenty Fourteen. Normally, comments
   for submitted posts work just like comments with regular posts.
 *  Thread Starter [huynhlv54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/huynhlv54/)
 * (@huynhlv54)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-reply/#post-5469527)
 * After I mannually allowed comments, the reply field appeared.
    How can I allow
   comments automatically?
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-reply/#post-5469530)
 * Visit Settings > Discussion > “Default article settings” > “Allow people to post
   comments on new articles”, also have a look at the other comments settings, and
   read through:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Comments_in_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Comments_in_WordPress)
 *  Thread Starter [huynhlv54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/huynhlv54/)
 * (@huynhlv54)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-reply/#post-5469546)
 * Thank you Jeff,
 * In the setting tab, “Allow people to post comments on new articles” is already
   checked, but that still doesn’t enable commenting.
 * Here is what I did to make commenting possible by dafault: In the file user-submitted-
   posts.php, add
 * `$postData['comment_status'] = 'open';`
 * before
 * `$newPost = wp_insert_post($postData);`
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-reply/#post-5469585)
 * Thanks for posting, huynhlv54. Comments should be enabled by default without 
   any need for such code, but I will take a look for the next update and see what’s
   up.

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 * Last reply from: [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/enable-reply/#post-5469585)
 * Status: resolved