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dolbex · Post by **dolbex** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:40 pm

Howdy,

I am running the "Start Page Category" Plugin that allows you to show a single category on the start page. What I also wish to do is to show the comments on the start page as well instead of having to click on the article title. Is there a plugin or template trick I can do to produce this?

dolbex · Post by **dolbex** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:48 pm

Man, I hate when you look for something for 10 minutes, can't find it, post a question then instantly find the answer yourself. Sorry bout that....

For others with this question look for this line in "entries.tpl" in your template folder

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{if $is_single_entry and not $is_preview}

Edit:

Well, thought I had it but I don't. It gets to:

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{$COMMENTFORM}

and doesn't actually put the form up... any guesses as to why?

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:07 pm

I don't think {$COMMENTFORM} gets populated unless you're looking at a single entry. You're looking at a category, and there are no comments for categories.

The question becomes, what do you want to show the comment form for? Once for each entry in the category? Once for the entire category, linked to a particular entry?

carl_galloway · Post by **carl_galloway** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:48 pm

Garvin provided a solution to placing the commentform on the startpage for another user, ythis might help.

dolbex · Post by **dolbex** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:00 pm

Cool, that totally worked. I only display one "story" on each page so it was kind of silly having the "click for more" thing happening. You can see it in action here:

http://www.dolbex.com