Dan Dwire

After doing all this work to crank out a child theme for the Work-a-Holic theme, I realized that the comments were not being displayed. After digging, and digging all day, I finally found what the problem was. The Work-a-Holic theme has this system where anything within your blog category won’t display in the portfolio slider on the front page. It looks like the designer, for some reason, wanted to disable comments on everything except for posts under that blog category. I found this single line in the theme’s single.php:

<!--?php if(is_category($blog_ID)) { comments_template(); } ?-->

I just removed the logic that checked category and everything works wonderfully now.

<!--?php comments_template(); ?-->

Update:
I just noticed this line on the graphpaper press changelog

“In single.php: replaced is_category with in_category for sidebar conditional.

January 7, 2011 / revision 1548 / rick”

Appearantly, this didn’t get into the version I downloaded Monday.

Changing:

<!--?php if(is_category($blog_ID)) { comments_template(); } ?-->

to:

<!--?php if(in_category($blog_ID)) { comments_template(); } ?-->

Fixed commenting issues.

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