Comments not appearing at all

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I have comments enabled on my site but the form isn’t appearing. It worked at one point as there are comments on some of my posts with links to them but they don’t appear on the page.

Take this post: https://arcath.net/2016/03/react/ The theme is clearly showing 1 comment at the top of the page.

Comments are enabled in Settings -> Discussion

Discussion Settings

Post Options

I’ve read a lot of forum posts on the subject that lead me to these settings but I can’t see anything wrong with them.

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Stupid question :
Is it possible that your theme doesn’t include the comments on display?

In addition to settings, your theme must display comments.

The default function provided by WP is comments_template (to use on single.php and/or page.php) :


 comments_template( '', true );

UPDATE —————————————————

I believe there is something wrong with the theme “hueman”.

I installed it on a local WP containing sample contents.

When I go to an article containing comments, I have the exact same result as you get.

If I display the exact same article using a different theme (one of the defaults provided), the comments are displayed.

So I checked the single.php template file of the hueman theme and it use a custom function ( hu_is_checked(‘post-comments’) ).
Used in: 

if ( hu_is_checked('post-comments') ) { comments_template('/comments.php',true); }

The problem is: it return null (so the comments can’t be displayed).

According to the theme documentation, we should be able to customize the theme options through the customizer
http://docs.presscustomizr.com/article/113-customizr-theme-options-comments
This option is located in : Customizer > Content Panel > Comments

Unfortunatly I wasn’t able to found it :
I tried on front page, single post, page, never saw it.

So, since the option is not defined, the custom function will always return null.

A quick fix would be to create a child theme of hueman, overwrite single.php template and change the line for:

comments_template('/comments.php',true);

I tested it, it works.

A better solution would be to contact the theme author to see if we missed something or if it’s a bug.

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