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Blogger Comment won’t show? Here’s how to fix it

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Blogger Comment won’t show? You suddenly can’t find the comment form on your Blogger blog? So many things could be responsible and I intend to work you through all the possible cause and how you can fix it in this article.

Blogger comment form allows your site visitors to share their views or contribution to your posts and when they can’t find the comment form, they probably won’t be able to contribute to the post and may discourage a visitor from returning to your blog again.

One of the reasons why your Blogger comment form may show on your post pages could be because it has been turned off on your blog settings page. If you had mistakenly or unknowingly hidden your Blogger comment form on the settings page, then your Blogger comment form won’t show on your post pages.

1. How to fix Blogger Comment when it won’t show:

Login to your Blogger dashboard

Click on the Settings tab

Under the Settings tab, select the Posts and Comments option and ensure the comment location is at embedded and not hide and save. See image below for illustration.

how to fix Blogger Comment won’t show

Another possibility could be that the comment is not checked on the layout page. The Blogger layout page can also be used to enable or disable comment form on Blogger.

2. How to fix Blogger Comment when it won’t show:

Login to your Blogger dashboard

Click on the “Layout” tabs.

Click on the “Edit” button in the lower-right hand side of the square box called “Blog Posts“.

Under the “Post Page Options” make sure the “Comments” box is checked and then save.

The third possibility could be that the Blogger comment form may have been turned off inside the post settings. This may be peculiar to single blog posts or maybe it has been turned off from the very beginning.

3. How to fix Blogger Comment when it won’t show:

Login to your Blogger dashboard

Click on the “Posts” tab

Click on the title of the post(s) that do not have their comment form enabled. In the sidebar, right-hand side, you have a list of “Post Settings”.

Click the “Options” menu to reveal other options.

how to fix Blogger Comment won’t show

Ensure the “Reader Comments” is on “allow” and not “Don’t allow, show existing ” or “Don’t allow, hide existing”.

I hope this tutorial can help you fix all the Blogger Comment form problems, use the comment form below if you have any questions or contributions.

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  1. Though , i knew this tutorial..as having used blogger before i’ve to admit that blogger platform comes with a lot of troubles .If people want to use blogs for more professional purposes they should go for WP else stick to blogger.Anyways,thanks for sharing the information mate

    -Pramod

  5. Hi Nwosu,

    This one trips up even the most determined bloggers. If your comments do not show you will move onto the next blog. I know this, because I do it ;) So taking a few steps can increase your comments received, build a sense of community around your blog and grow your business prospects too.

    Thanks for sharing the detailed tutorial with us and have a great weekend buddy!

    Ryan

  9. Many times small problems can cause huge troubles. Learning how a system works will help in sorting such problems. Thanks Nwosu for presenting this tutorial. Hope it will help for may bloggers having blog in blogspot platform.

  10. Well, I agreed with Boss Ryan…. Comments do seems an important part of any blogs, so if these won’t show, then you don’t what is going on with your blog. It is better that the comments would show in your blog just to keep you updated with what others think your blog is. Thanks for these tips I will bookmark or remember them for future references….. =D

  11. Thank you! I was looking at the first 2 steps and it wasn’t working. Your step 3 worked!

  15. Nice information.
    The template which I’m using don’t have codes to display the comments .
    Is there any other way to display comments by adding some blogger tags ( xml ) or any other method ?
    Because I tried all the above methods but no help. :)

  17. I am new to blogger.My blog shows comment link(like 3 comments),but name textbox and field for comments not appears.I have to click on link(like 3 comments) to show name and comment field and each time it reloads the page.

  19. After I reading your fixing tutorial,

    The method 1, under Settings, posts and comments, I don’t have the comment moderation option & Who can comment option. I only have the comment location.

    How??

    Others 2 options, comments are checked and no problem.

  21. I have discovered and am able to clearly repeat when (and when not) the comments box is displayed and it “appears” to be a simple case of extremely bad programming. Read on …

    In the process of researching this horrendous design flaw, I became extremely disappointed with the structure and operation of Blogger. I have never seen such a complicated interface for both authors and visitors to navigate. For example, it should not be so painful and difficult for even the creator of a blog to find the dashboard and other settings. Much like the social rape site, F***book, there are several views of the same thing that each look different and it takes a long time to get the hang of it.

    I have reverse engineered the problem and found that is is based on the fact that their are TWO levels of post display. When visitors first come to the main blogger home of an author, they are presented with the full display of several posts (up to limit set in settings which defaults to 7). At this initial view level, there is NO comment box for new comments at the bottom of each post. If there are no comments to date, all you see is “no comments”.

    While at this stop level, if you then click on a particular post’s TITLE (or the “no comments” label at the bottom, then that post is redisplayed just as it was at the top level. The only difference is that it is then the ONLY post displayed. When you enter this SINGLE post display level, THEN the comment box appears, below the post.

    Since the entire post in question is displayed at the top level, along others, there is not visual cue that the visitor needs to click on the same post’s TITLE (or the “no comments” label) to redisplay that post and, only then, see the comment box below it. This is utterly ridiculous. No public visitor would ever be able to figure that out – nor should they have to.

    This is clearly an atrocious design flaw of Blogger.

    Why can’t there be a simple display interface that visitors can understand and avoid so many problems like Comment not showing. As a designer of such systems, it boggles my mind how so many well-paid Google coders could have produced such a terrible interface. This is coding 101.

    So, there may not be a setting problems after all. It is simply the design that the comments box is not shown at the entry level where all posts are display one after the other. From a design point of view, I consider that a design flaw.

    So, as it stands, if you want users to comment when visiting your blog site, Blogger is NOT the product to use. It is a shame we invested so much time setting up our blogs. I am appalled.

    A very poor work around is to manually contact people you want to comment and tell them the site is broken and, although they see the full post, they still have to click that post’s title to redisplay it and then see the comment box.

    Another idea is to find a way to modify the blog title to add a last line that instruct visitors to click the post title or the “no comments” at the end to redisplay the posting by itself which will then display the comment box.

    Ugh!

  23. I have tried all of the suggestions, but comments still aren’t showing up on my blog. I am notified that comments have been made, but they don’t appear. When I comment (not signed in to Google) using my internet in my house it does work, which leads me to believe that some individuals have settings which prevent their comments from appearing. What those settings are is anybody’s guess! I’m seriously considering changing platform unless a solution becomes apparent soon.

  25. i managed to get this working by following step3 of your solution.
    Is there a way to enable it globally for all posts without manually setting this option for each posts?

    Thanks

  26. there has few comments on my blog post i cant see them !! why i dont know

    i am newbie at all .. i checked seen there has allow option in post type but comments are not showing
    can anybody help me plz what should i do for this problem? plz visit my site http://www.chudasihousewife.com/
    see there .. if any kind here knock me for solve my problem plz

  27. Man..thank you…I was searching for this..and it was just a simple mistake..
    now that you said blogger has many flaws..i have to admit that too..i was gonna buy a domain for my blog…i may rethink using blogger as flatform.. but i’ve spent so much time on it…anywho, thanks again..

  31. I was really starting to feel hopeless when I found your post. Thank you so much for helping me resolve my issue.

  34. Thanks a lot,

    problem solved in the “post settings” of all our new post.

    Every new post we make dont allow comments, I dont know why….

    We have to allow this option manually every time we make a new post.

    Bizzare

    Thierry

  36. I also faced the same observation In my blogger, when I checked then I found ‘Google +’ was checked as Yes under ‘Setting’ –> Posts, Comments and Sharing’–>Google + Comments. Please choose ‘No’ if is yes. This might be one of the reason to make your comment tab disappeared.

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