Another Fine Mess

For those of you who haven’t noticed, there isn’t a way to leave comments on this blog. It’s not that I don’t want to hear from you; far from it. The problem is that despite indicating on the WordPress dashboard that I do want people to be able to make comments, the comment box apparently is still lurking somewhere in the ether.

I did a search on the Net to see if I could find a solution. Apparently, I’m in good company. It seems everyone has this problem, whether they use Windows or Mac, IE7 or IE8, or even Firefox. The problem is mentioned in forums everywhere, including in WP itself. Even Matthew Bredel has posted a helpful clip on YouTube, which in my case at least, allowed me to untick some boxes, but still not solve the problem.

As widespread as this problem appears to be, you’d think that WP would offer a fix that doesn’t involve a download. This is important because I for one get my version of WP through my host, who for reasons of their own have chosen not to upgrade. I suspect that many, if not most, people are in the same situation.

So, it means that if you want to comment on the blog, you’ll have to send me an email. Daft, no? Maybe I’ll create a separate page for comments.

Is anyone from WordPress listening? I didn’t think so.

PS. A friend of mine (also named Bruce) changed the theme for this blog so that you, my faithful readers, could make comments. So apologies for the amateurish format at the top, but it’s preferable to not being able to receive your feedback. Maybe we’ll get that fixed one of these days.