New Backcountry site theme "leave comment" box after post & other issue

[RichardPD]

Hi

This is my second post today about Genesis child theme Backcountry which I'm setting up on a site.
I currently have x2 problems.

1. The first post published should have a Leave comment box at the end of it but doesn't.
I had some odd behaviour with this as immediately after posting this the leave comment box was present, but after a few page refreshes it disappeared and I cannot make it display again. I have cleared my browser cache but this makes no difference.

2.The SimpleSocialIcon facebook icon is not displaying properly and does not show when viewed on mobile phone (iphone).

I will keep trying to fix these issues but am grateful for any help, many thanks

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[Victor Font]

Leave a comment is working as designed. It displays when you click the Leave a Comment link.

It looks like Backcountry was designed for an earlier version of Simple Social Icons, a version that used background images instead of icon fonts. You'll need to remove the background images around line 2175 in style.css.

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[RichardPD]

Hi Victor
Thanks for your very helpful reply.

In regard to Leave a comment box, it is NOT displaying the comment box after the post as I want it.
To show what I mean here see a post on my other Backcontry theme where the leave a comment box is present below the post by default (without the need to click the leave comment link):

Walking with Friends

Why can this work with this theme one one site but not the other?

Thanks for your help with the issue with the SimpleSocialIcons and Backcountry theme. I will try & fix this with a CSS edit.

[Victor Font]

Have you checked the settings and made sure comments are turned on the the page? We can't see what's going with that issue without access to the backend. We can only guess. Any plugins that could possible be interfering with comments?

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[RichardPD]

Hi Victor
I have comments switched on.
I have x6 plugins..Akismet/HostgatorWalk/JetPack/MOJO/SimpleSocialIcons/WPSuperCache...any of these a problem?
I suppose I can turn them off one by one and test...
Thanks again

[RichardPD]

OK..
I posted on SimpleSocialIcons plugin homepage and had a helpful reply from Nick Cernis that sorted box the icon & comment box issue.

I knew from here that I needed to alter the css stylesheet to fix the icon issue but I didn't know what Nick told me that the comment form/box does not work on a homepage or category pages. It does work on the site on the posts page.
I may change the front page to a custom template to display thge comment box or just use the Backcountry default homepage with image slider & featured posts exerpts etc.
See:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/icon-not-displaying-properly-on-genesis-backcountry-child-theme?replies=5#post-7297325

Anyway hopefully I know the reason for all the issues I've had with the Backcontry Genesis child theme. I hope these posts may help anyone else who might get issues with this theme and thanks to everyone for their fine help here.
Best wishes

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