I don’t agree. On other wordpress themese I used (e.g. 2012, which I switched to for a while as I awaited this being resolved) comments are available on pages as well as posts. In theory it’s up to a site owner to decide where they want comments enabled, and there’s no logical argument why they should be enabed on posts but not on pages.

I’ve made it accessible, you can now look at / change functions.php.

Also I don’t think that debug mode is what I want. It lets me edit legacy pages in the Visual or Text format, but it doesn’t let me edit the one page you added comments to, so I have no way to see what shortcode I would need to add in order to add a comment shortcode to the over 200 pages on my site, one by one.

I don’t understand why you have disabled the ability to just have comments enabled on every page. All I am askin for is (1) access to the editor I always had (classic and raw HTML) and (2) ability to have all pages enabled for comments. Why did you remove that capability? I have been using Enfold for many years and had to upgrade recently due to a PHP upgrade and I really didn’t bargain for this loss of capability.

Can you please provide directions on how to renable the classic editor AND re-enable comments on all pages without requiring a comment element manually added to each page?

Can I please get a response that allows me to re-enable all comments? I have been waiting a long time for resolution of what appears to be a fundamental flaw in the new Enfold theme and very little progress is being made.

Hi Victoria. Thanks for showing that this is at least possible. A couple of points:
– I never had to add a comment element to a page before, all pages had comments. Comments always appeared on every page that had them, and a comment form appeared on every page.
– I thought I would look at the page you changed from within WordPress to see what changes you made. I can see the comment element when I use the Advanced Layout Editor. However I don’t want to use that editor. I never had to before. When I go to the default editor the page is blank.
– I see that that one page is the only one that uses the Advanced Layout Editor.
To me it’s not a viable solution to (1) change all pages to use an editor I don’t want to use, and (2) add a comment element to each such page, especially since (3) I don’t seem to have a way to go back to my editor of choice since the pages wind up blank.

Can you please let me know an alternative that doesn’t require massive manual changes or switching my editor of choice?

I thought I already answered your last private comment but it is not showing for some reason. Please see my private reply below.

I added that to functions.php and enabled the theme again, and it did not enable comments.
I am going back to twentytwelve.
Let me know when you have another suggestion. You can login – I haven’t changed the credentials – and try changing back to Enfold to see what else might be the cause.

I deactivated all plugins one by one and there was nodifference. I have re-enabled the ones I need.