How do I disable/enable comments

[shovals]

Hi,
Is there a way to control enabling/disabling comments?
I find it quite depressing to see 0 comments in every post

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[yellowled]

Is there a way to control enabling/disabling comments?
I find it quite depressing to see 0 comments in every post

Well, boo-hoo. Go do something about it

Actually, I think you don't want to disable comments altogether (which you could in s9y), because that way, you'll never get comments - disabling comments altogether actually disables the possibility to comment.

What you're looking for is probably something like this: Open the entries.tpl of your current template (if it doesn't come with an entries.tpl, you can simply copy the one from /templates/default/ to /templates/<YOURTEMPLATE>/) and edit it like this (I'll take the entries.tpl from default as an example):

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{if $entry.has_comments}
    {if $use_popups}
        | <a href="{$entry.link_popup_comments}" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'comments', 'width=480,height=480,scrollbars=yes'); return false;">{if $entry.comments == 0}{$CONST.ADD_COMMENT}{else}{$entry.label_comments} ({$entry.comments}){/if}</a>
    {else}
        | <a href="{$entry.link}#comments">{if $entry.comments == 0}{$CONST.ADD_COMMENT}{else}{$entry.label_comments} ({$entry.comments}){/if}</a>
    {/if}
{/if}

That way, you'll get "Add comment" as long as there is no comment instead of "Comments (0)".

YL

[shovals]

After wiping the tears from the boo-hoo () I took your advice.
This is a much better way, I must admit.
Thanks for the tip.

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