Whenever you create a Page while you’re using the Cutline theme, you’ll need to make one important decision that will ultimately affect both the presentation and dynamic qualities of that page.
Default WordPress Pages in Cutline have been constructed so as to allow for comments. In many cases, however, comments may not be appropriate, and by turning them off for a particular page, you can clean up the styling and save yourself some potential spam troubles down the road.
How to turn comments on or off on your Pages
In the Write Page area of your WordPress Administration Panel, you have the option to choose whether comments are on or off for the Page that you’re creating. Please note that the default setting is to have comments turned on, so if you create a page without addressing this issue, then you may end up with a discussion area that you don’t necessarily want.
Many themes do not come with this capability, but Cutline gives you total flexibility with regard to Page handling.
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25 responses so far ↓
1 Sridhar // Dec 8, 2006 at 10:22 am
Is it possible to uncheck comments and pings on all the pages of the blog in one shot?
2 Chris // Dec 8, 2006 at 11:26 am
Sridhar,
No, but to fix this annoyance in one fell swoop, you could edit your
page.phpfile and simply:<h4>tags.comments_template();.Once you do that, you won’t be able to display comments or pings on any Pages created with the default page template.
3 Mike Edwards // Dec 9, 2006 at 3:01 pm
How do you add the feature to comments of notifying people of follow up comments via email?
Mike
4 David Klein // Dec 10, 2006 at 2:24 am
This is one of those annoying and unnecessary comments.
Thanks for the great theme. It has saved me tons of work and I am very appreciative!
dk
5 Sridhar // Dec 10, 2006 at 10:59 am
Mike: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/
6 Chris // Dec 10, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Mike,
Sridhar has pointed you in the right direction, and you also could have found your answer here on this site.
I’ve tried to construct everything in such a way that all the info you need to know about Cutline is contained right here.
That said, next time you have a question about the theme, try:
Oh, and regarding the Subscribe to Comments Plugin, I wrote about that in this article.
7 rob // Dec 29, 2006 at 2:56 am
I recently installed Cutline and this plugin to notify followup comments and
I’m getting a broken link to
http://themortgageinsider.net/blog/wp-content/themes/Cutline/images/submit_comment.gif
The gif called submit_comment does not exist in the Cutline images directory (or anywhere else). I checked this page and it’s in yours too…
Where to do I get that gif?
Thanks for a great theme!
8 texaiano // Dec 29, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Dude, Chris. I love Cutline, but I had a question and it looks like this is the only way to interact with you. My question is: How do I get Cutline to throw up the usual 404 “Easy, tiger. This is a 404 page.” message with all of the headers, footers, etc branded to my site in a directory, like ~/images, where these is no “blog” content. I want to protect the images directory against people who try to browse it and steal my content.
9 Chris // Dec 29, 2006 at 1:28 pm
Rob,
Can you determine where that image is being called from within the template? It might be a holdover from a previous version of the theme—it’s been so long that I don’t even remember its existence.
Based on the theme’s current architecture, there shouldn’t be any calls to that image, but perhaps an old one remains that I’ve simply forgotten about.
10 Karl // Jan 15, 2007 at 8:37 am
Chris,
when I deactivate the comments in the post, there is still a “no comments” under the post on the main page.
Is it possible to leave this blank (so it will only appear if comments are enabled)?
11 Brandon // Jan 17, 2007 at 3:49 am
Hi Chris,
I love how customizable this theme is. Question: I’ve unchecked both the “Allow Comments” and “Allow Pings” boxes for this page: http://www.salesteamtools.com/download/
But as you’ll see, three internal pings back to that page in old blog posts still show on that page. Why is that?
12 Hans // Jan 24, 2007 at 12:16 pm
What i really want to know is how do i enable the blog to show the authors name on each post? i’m doing a blog with over 10 authors and i want their names to show up . can this be done in cutline?
13 Leroy Brown // Jan 24, 2007 at 4:54 pm
I’m having trouble deciding whether I should mod cutline or Pressrow… why’d you have to go and make two great themes to confuse me?
14 Will // Feb 6, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Is there a way to remove the sidebar from a page? I would like some of my pages to look like a web site rather than a blog.
15 Ryan McKillen // Feb 6, 2007 at 8:05 pm
I had a comment on one of my posts today that was between […] notations. Is this a ping or a trackback? What’s the difference? How does Wordpress/Cutline know that another blog referenced mine?
16 Aldian Prakoso // Feb 6, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Hi Will,
Simply delete this code from your index.php.
Hi Hans,
I also want to know how to show the author’s name.
17 Aldian Prakoso // Feb 6, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Oops, sorry, the code doesn’t show up. I try again.
It’s “” without blank spaces between ” and “.
18 Aldian Prakoso // Feb 6, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Sorry the code still doesn’t show up.
Will, just delete the line that has “php get_sidebar()” in your index.php.
19 Will // Feb 7, 2007 at 9:24 am
Aldian,
If I delete the “get_sidebar” in the the index.php won’t that remove the sidebar from all pages? I just want the sidebar removed from select pages.
20 Brad // May 10, 2007 at 8:49 am
Chris,
Great themes. Really.
Is there any way to turn comments on in pages in Pressrow?
Thanks, Brad
21 Gingerlily // May 21, 2007 at 1:31 pm
For posts, How would I modify the text color to make any references to tags,categories or comments transparent or invisible that usually appear below the post?.
Thank you.
22 Jeroen Sangers // Jun 14, 2007 at 9:49 am
About the missing submit_comment.gif: I see that even the submit button on this page calles this file, though it does not exist.
23 Rob // Jul 29, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Hello-
I have the same question as Karl above - I have comments turned off and would really like to get rid of the “No Comments” text in the header and footer of posts.
Any ideas?
-Rob
24 jackson // Aug 13, 2007 at 4:01 pm
I would like to know:
1. how to get rid of one or the other “No Comments” text - I don’t need two, just one. Or none.
2. How to show author’s name.
Sorry, if these have been answered I don’t understand the answer. Thanks.
25 Chris // Feb 27, 2008 at 7:16 am
Hi everyone,
I blog in germany and i have the same question as hans.
i really want to know how to enable my blog to show the authors name under each post? i’m having a blog with 8 authors and i want their names shown under their post. can this be done in cutline?
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