Display comments block on homepage

[wayside 0]

Website is setup to display the latest blog for the homepage. This works fine, however how do I get the comments block to also display without clicking on "Leave a Comment".

[timlinson 3]

"Leave a Comment" takes you to the single post page of the post, which shows the entire individual post plus the comment field. Are you saying you want comment fields to show up for every post on the main blog page?

[wayside 0]

I have the settings of WP to have the latest post the home page. Rather than having just the "Leave a Comment" link, I would like to display the comment block under the post. Also I only display 1 post at a time on the homepage.

[Kate 3]

Hi Richard, You would have to modify the template.postloop.php file. Are you comfortable with PHP?

[wayside 0]

Yes I am comfortable with PHP. Will this cause any issues with future updates?

[timlinson 3]

If you're using platformpro, you can preserve these customizations by using the platformbase child theme. Activate it in Appearance > Themes, and then copy the template to the platformbase folder. Make your changes in the base file.

[wayside 0]

copied the file, where do I edit in order to display the comments?

[wayside 0]

From everything that I have read so far, you can't display the comment block (txt area) within the template.postloop.php template or something about not being able to display the comments box on the homepage when the home page is set to display the latest post.

[cmunns 16]

Comments go with single post pages. It doesn't work to allow them on a non-single post page.

[wayside 0]

cmunns - Is there a way to create a page and then have that page the homepage? Trying to figure out some type of work around?

[kastelic 6]

In Settings -> REading you can set any page as your homepage or Blog page. Did i read your question right?

[wayside 0]

I saw that, but isn't a blog page different then a blog post?

[catrina 103]

Blog page is the main page where blog posts are displayed and a blog post is just a single blog post displayed in its own page.