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Hi,

I am having a problem getting comments to actually show up on the page. Actually they are track backs but all that is showing is the number of comments but nothing else.

http://www.discoveringpeace.com/the-abraham-hicks-emotional-guidance-scale.html

When I change out to another of your themes, the same thing happens.

Any help in getting them to show up would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Vickie

Probably a dumb question, but do you have comments enabled for the post?

Your comments should show up like so:
http://demos.simplethemes.com/elated/transcending-css.html#comments

Feel free to PM me your wp-admin info and I'll take a look if you'd like.

Yes the options are set to allow both pings and comments.


It is printing out the stuff between the h2 tags but isn't printing anything for the wp_list_comments.

That's very strange. I've tried to reproduce the error in both Pages and Posts without success. Have the single.php or page.php templates been changed?

I thought that as well so I unzipped the template again and reuploaded it. I will pm you log in info.

PM Received, thanks. I looked into it and I was able to post a comment both as a guest and as admin and they did in fact show up, so at least we know comments aren't broken.

I believe the reason this page is displaying an incorrect comment count "3 comments" is because it isn't properly separating pingbacks from comments. There are actually 2 pingbacks and 1 comment for that post.

There is a way to fix this, but it is disabled by default because pingbacks can get ugly. I couldn't get to files outside of the root theme directory via the theme editor, so if you'd like to try replacing wp-content/themes/elated/lib/functions/comments-functions.php with the contents of this code http://pastebin.com/Ti0NMrd0 I think it might fix things.

Please let me know if this helps.

It still is showing 3 comments but just your comment after changing that file. What change was it supposed to make?

I received your PM. Everything should be working as expected now.
Please verify just to be sure.

The problem was that apparently the get_comments_number() function calculates the number of pingbacks and comments.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_comments_number

Thanks to this snippet, I was able to override that:
http://snipt.net/flapane/exclude-pingbacks-from-comments-in-wordpress

Thanks so much for your help and excellent customer service. Have a great weekend!