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1Comment bubbleJetpack-style comments without Jetpack

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One of the best things about word­press is the built-in social aspect provided by com­ments. Get­ting your com­ment sec­tion right can be very import­ant to any web­site, includ­ing ours. Over the years we’ve exper­i­mented with vari­ous com­ment plu­gins includ­ing Dis­qus and more recently Jet­pack. How­ever, we’ve always ended up bring things back in house for man­age­ment, per­form­ance and pri­vacy reas­ons. When I moved back from Jet­pack com­ments I really missed some of the slick fea­tures provided by Jet­pack, both the social-net­work logins and the gen­er­al slick styl­ing. Any­way, to cut a long story short I finally had time today to take a good look at how word­press “does” com­ments and fig­ure out a way to build an in-house sys­tem which looks nice and slick like the com­ment inter­face provided by jet­pack. Best of all its sur­pris­ingly simple and does things the “prop­er” way…
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0Wordpress LogoFixed: Comments area disappearing in Mystique theme

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I recently had a prob­lem where the entire com­ments area was miss­ing from all the posts on this blog. When I switched back to the default twentyten theme they reappeared and at first I thought it was a prob­lem with the mys­tique theme. I switched back to mys­tique and dis­abled all of my plu­gins and the com­ments came back!  A simple pro­cess of elim­in­a­tion iden­ti­fied the cul­prit — The WP SEO Pager Plu­gin. This plu­gin isn’t really neces­sary with the mys­tique theme, so I have simply removed it. If you encounter the same prob­lem with mys­tique, check you haven’t got this plu­gin enabled.