Title: Help! lost Comments box
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Help! lost Comments box

 *  [LasinEFJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lasinefj/)
 * (@lasinefj)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-lost-comments-box/)
 * Hi there,
    I’ve been reading all the posts I can find regarding missing comments
   box but haven’t figured out my particular problem. It seems that perhaps one 
   of my old plugins may have messed with the code?
 * Can someone help me figure this out? I want to get my blog up and running again.
 * Thanks much!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-lost-comments-box/#post-4292785)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-lost-comments-box/#post-4292787)
 * Please include a few more details:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Include_as_much_information_as_possible](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Include_as_much_information_as_possible)
 *  Thread Starter [LasinEFJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lasinefj/)
 * (@lasinefj)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-lost-comments-box/#post-4292800)
 * Thank you for our quick reply
    Yes – I’ve tried switching between the default
   and blog page settings – no
 * ok – I deactivated all the plugins that I am not currently using.
    I’ll try the
   remainder of the ones that are not completely necessary.
 * Is this always a plugin related problem?
 *  Thread Starter [LasinEFJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lasinefj/)
 * (@lasinefj)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-lost-comments-box/#post-4292805)
 * I’m using Elegant Themes. Is this problem known to be related to their themes–
   do you know?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-lost-comments-box/#post-4292806)
 * Did you carry out any of the other steps I suggested above? _All_ of them are
   a necessary part of basic troubleshooting.
 *  Thread Starter [LasinEFJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lasinefj/)
 * (@lasinefj)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-lost-comments-box/#post-4292812)
 * Ok here’s everything I’ve checked:
 * On the top of the page: both discussion and comments boxes are ticked.
    On the
   page info at the bottom – the allow comments button is ticked.
 * I’ve deactivated the plugins one at a time and none of that made a difference.
 * I deleted the plugins that I’m not using.
 * What is going on here….. I used WordPress on my old blog and this was never a
   problem… I used the same plugins…
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-lost-comments-box/#post-4292815)
 * Please try the steps I suggested above.
 *  Thread Starter [LasinEFJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lasinefj/)
 * (@lasinefj)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-lost-comments-box/#post-4292819)
 * Ive done everything above except the complete php re-set. What will that do to
   all my content (which is created with the plugin Thrive Builder…. and how badly
   could I destroy my site with that?
 * I deactivated everything else manually.
 *  Thread Starter [LasinEFJ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lasinefj/)
 * (@lasinefj)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-lost-comments-box/#post-4292834)
 * Ok – I just discovered something….
 * I had created a page named blog – on that page I put my blog post.
    Next to that
   on the menu was a category I had created “Leading” So when I clicked on Leading–
   it gave me an excerpt of the blog post – when I clicked ‘see more’ it gave me
   the post with a comments box.
 * When I had my wordpress blog – it was my blog page that allowed for comments.
   I’ll have to see how this works out with the editor – but I think I may have 
   a solution for now.
 * Still – no ability to get comments on any of the other pages… but I don’t want
   them there anyway.
 * I made the blog page private as it seems I don’t need it. But… how will people
   know I have a blog if it doesn’t say “blog” ?
 * Can you please give advice? Maybe I just name the category: Blog? 🙂

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-lost-comments-box/#post-4292834)
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