Posted: Monday, September 11th, 2006 at 6:54 am. Filed in Customization, Themes.
Comments on Pages
One big inconsistency with a lot of our themes were how they handled comments on pages. Some didn’t show a thing, and others would show comments all the time.
We’ve gone through all the themes here on WordPress.com and made them work the same way. Now by default pages will have comments enabled on them, but if you want to hide the comments and comment form you just have to switch “Allow Comments” off for that page.
How do you do that? When editing a page, click the plus sign next to “Discussion” and then uncheck “Allow Comments.”
Save the post, and you’re done.
September 11th, 2006 at 6:59 am
Cool, thanks…
Been waiting for that.
September 11th, 2006 at 7:38 am
That is cool!
I had wondered about that!
great work!
Eoin
September 11th, 2006 at 7:48 am
Awesome. Will these new standardizations ever be published in the form of an unofficial “style guide” for WordPress themes?
September 11th, 2006 at 7:53 am
I think the next step is adding ‘contact me’ page ….Am I right?
September 11th, 2006 at 7:54 am
Greg, definitely. It’s something we’ve been giving some thought to, we have one internally and we’re hoping to flesh it out before publishing.
September 11th, 2006 at 8:06 am
awesome. it seems like wordpress is picking up steam and improving something everyday. keep it up!
September 11th, 2006 at 8:36 am
Great
September 11th, 2006 at 8:49 am
Starting to like WP more and more these days.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:21 am
This is what I was waiting for! Thank you.
September 11th, 2006 at 9:26 am
Thanks
September 11th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Thanks so much.
September 11th, 2006 at 11:05 am
Great – very fast response. Thanks!
September 11th, 2006 at 11:18 am
Yup, I felt it was weird that all my posts had comments, but my pages did not. Thanks for streamlining everything, and for giving us the chance to opt out of comments on our pages if we want.
September 11th, 2006 at 11:25 am
Great. I asked for it Yesterday, and WP is having it today. Thank you Matt.
September 11th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
I’m currently using Ambiru theme and left the comment on one of my page on, however it seems to appear that there is double comment sections on one of my page. I wish to leave my comments on, could you get rid of the additional comment on it.
Here’s the link where u can see it http://fadingflowers.wordpress.com/2-password-protected/
September 11th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
excelent! I was expecting for that since a long time! Very good!
September 11th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
Yeah… really nice.. Thanks WP..!!!!
September 11th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Great. On a related note, it would still be nice to be able to edit posts in all themes from the post itself, rather than needing to go through the dashboard for some.
September 11th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Thank you.
September 11th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Carpus, check out the next post.
September 11th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
HOORAY! And now to have a template in every theme for a contact page would be so very sweet.
P.S. Thanks for all the good stuff Matt and the crew. Providing it demonstrates your responsiveness to the wordpress blogging community. And we sure are diverse, interesting and fun loving bunch, aren’t we?
September 11th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
AWESOME!
You guys rule.
September 12th, 2006 at 12:44 am
Thanks Matt, you guys do a great work.
September 12th, 2006 at 3:23 am
yeah. this should be done long time before.
thanks.
September 12th, 2006 at 5:11 am
Three cheers for Matt and the WordPress.com team. Hip, Hip, Hooray! Hip, Hip, Hooray! Hip, Hip, Hooray!
No, but we really do appreciate the work you put in. You’ve made wordpress.com into one of (if not the) premiere free blog hosting service. Congrats. I love you. ~ Rory
September 12th, 2006 at 5:51 am
you guys just never stop! I love WordPress.
September 12th, 2006 at 7:41 am
Wow, and I was just reading about this in the forums…
You guys are more than fantastic, thank you!
September 12th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Groovy!
September 12th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
This is great. thanks! i second the ‘contact me’ page request
September 12th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
I always wanted to allow comments on my About page, so this is a nice addition. Thanks!
September 13th, 2006 at 3:58 am
I was not aware of that feature.Cool!
September 13th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Wonderful! Thank you!!
Would it be possible to add categories to pages some day?
September 13th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
CAYOOO. Cool.
September 16th, 2006 at 7:25 pm
excellent stuff!
September 18th, 2006 at 3:19 am
i’m just thinking, why bother normalizing themes (giving them all avatars, comments on pages, like-named-templates for links and archives), when you could port most (*cough* hemingway) of them to sandbox?
http://ntuat.wordpress.com has a good start on porting old themes, and surely switching css files rather than whole themes would provide better abstraction for non-technical users?
September 19th, 2006 at 9:13 pm
I would like to see more themes, and even more customisable! well, i’m a “non-technical user”, and that css-way of making my page unique is a real alien-stuff. (sorry 4 my english
Anyway, great job with comments!
September 20th, 2006 at 7:00 am
Great !
September 22nd, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Thank you. That will be a great help
October 3rd, 2006 at 8:24 am
good idea, well done!