Adding comments to category archive page, Modern Porftolio Pro

[Elaine Griffin]

Hello,
I've looked everywhere and I can't seem to find the right code or a plugin to add comments to a category page.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
Elaine

[David Chu]

Hi Elaine,
That's definitely not standard equipment. To me, the WordPress default makes more sense - having comments attached only to the single Post that they relate to.

If I'm following you, that would mean all comments on all posts in a category would appear on a Category page. Is that what you're looking for? If so, that's definitely some custom programming, which I'd consider out-of-scope here. Unless maybe you can find a plugin to do that and stick it in a sidebar or footer, I don't know of one.

It is fairly easy to add a comments box for a Category Archive Page, though. But then you're commenting on the big list of Post in that category, and to me that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But if you want that, I can show you, just let me know.

Cheers, Dave

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Dave Chu · Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers

[Elaine Griffin]

Thanks David.
Yes, I know it's not standard. This client project has been anything but. I'm eager to finish and move on, and this was the last request the client made.
He has had me set up all of his posts in a particular category display on one category page. He would like people to just be able to comment on that page, and disable comments per post.
Thanks again for your help - I appreciate it!

[David Chu]

Elaine,
I totally hear you. I get requests that are equally zany, or much worse. Those people never make it into my portfolio, of course. No sense in showing super wrong stuff. 🙂

Here's a little bit of code just for you. I think that should do it for you. I put it there because now this forum eats code. 🙂

Cheers, Dave

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Dave Chu · Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers

[Elaine Griffin]

Yeah, I am not putting my name on this site. Notice I didn't link it here! I never skip the link.
Thanks so much Dave, I will take a look at this and let you know how it goes!
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[Elaine Griffin]

That helped a lot Dave, thanks! I have a comment form showing, but I'm not seeing the CTA to add a comment. I'm using this code to change the CTA to "please comment." I'm trying to figure out how to add that to the category page.

[David Chu]

Great!
Gee, what you had looks pretty good. Not sure what's wrong, unless the extra "nabm" borked something?

I added another line that worked for me in my code.

Dave

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Dave Chu · Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers

[Elaine Griffin]

This reply has been marked as private.

[David Chu]

Hi Elaine,
Just FYI... I see a private message above... if that was meant to reach me, I can't see it.

Cheers, Dave

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Dave Chu · Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers

[Elaine Griffin]

Hi Dave,
Thanks for responding. Things got totally out of whack on this site when I tried putting comments on the category pages. I had to tell the client it would be best to just keep the comments on the posts.
Thanks again!
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[David Chu]

You're welcome, Elaine!
See you again sometime.

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Dave Chu · Custom WordPress Developer – likes collaborating with Designers

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