Blog Post Comment Section

[Zaepian]

Some time ago, I got help here to remove the comments section from this web address:
http://sanmarinoclub.com/the-san-marino-club-website-gets-a-facelift/

I don’t have a plug-in installed that’s doing the job, so I was wondering if you could tell me how the comments are being hidden, so I can have the option to turn them on again.

Thank you!!

[paul.r]

Hi,

Try to check for similar code in your child theme’s functions.php file

Something like this.

function disable_comments_status() {
	return false;
}
add_filter('comments_open', 'disable_comments_status', 20, 2);

You may remove that code to enable your comments section again.

Hope that helps

[Zaepian]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I checked there already, and I have no extra code written.
This is all my functions.php file contains:

EDIT: I discovered the issue myself and am sharing in detail in case anyone else has this issue in the future:

When I disabled comments, I did it by clicking on the “Screen Options” button at the top of WordPress within the individual posts themselves. Once clicked, a list appears and you need to check the box for “Discussions”. Afterwards, you scroll down to the bottom of the page and you should see a new settings section for discussions - check or uncheck the box next to “Allow Comments”.

In my case, I had disabled them comments in this way, and then I suspect, perhaps after an update or something, the post defaulted back to that settings section being hidden, but the comments remained off. So, when I went looking, it appeared as though I hadn’t used that method because the section was missing from the post. But, after I made the discussion settings visible again, and checked the box to allow comments, they appeared on the post once more.

For a video demonstration on how to activate/deactivate comments in this way, you can refer to this X Theme forum post: https://theme.co/apex/forums/topic/how-to-disable-comment-section/#post-23787

The link to the video is in the second line of the second comment.

[nabeel]

Glad you’ve sorted it out and thank you for sharing the solution with us.

Cheers!