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Do you have the Comments and Trackbacks enabled in your Genesis Theme Settings page?

Also, if you click “Screen options” and check “Discussion” (so the field shows up on the page editor) is it enabled/checked? I know you mentioned the “Discussion” was enabled but I wasn’t sure if you were referring to the Discussion page under the main WP Settings page or the Custom Field on the Page Editor.

Just figured it out……well sort of.

You may have an html error somewhere in your code. If you’ve added a “div” for example and don’t open/close it properly, then it throws other parts of your site off. Example – <div class="example">Here is some same text inside a div container</div> That is the proper way to open and close a div. The same thing goes for all html tags. If you leave one or the other open or closed improperly it usually does things like this to the site.

You can take a look here to see what all errors you have if you’re interested in fixing them all – http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tobyelwin.com%2Fcommunity-persona-for-change-management%2F%23respond&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 …..if not, you could add “clear: both;” to your code around line 2515 in your css –

/* Comments
------------------------------------------------------------ */

#comments,
#respond {
	clear: both;
	margin: 0 0 15px;
	overflow: hidden;
}

That will make the comments appear. The comments are there, but they are being blocked from something, and I’m guessing it’s just an html error somewhere.

Here is the result when I add that code to your site – http://i.imgur.com/xifrRbV.jpg Don’t mind the way the social link on the side looks, it won’t appear that way on your actual site, but as you can see the comments will show up again once you add that line of code.

1. I’m not 100% sure exactly what is causing the conflict, but it’s most likely another piece of code (html) or a plugin or something. Maybe you’re using a plugin that shows on certain pages? Or maybe you’re adding code in and it’s not showing up right on those specific pages?

2. If you haven’t made any changes to your theme, then I would definitely give the updated version a try to see if you prefer it instead. It’s 1140px wide instead of 960px now (thats what a lot of people wanted)…but you can adjust it to always be 960px if you want. You can check this out for some basic info on the update – https://appfinite.com/topic/optimal-1-3-for-genesis-2-0-html5-is-now-available/

If you decide to keep the version you have, then adding that code should still fix that issue. Just make sure and add in the “clear: both” code exactly as I have it above and you should be fine.

Not all of those errors are necessarily “urgent”, some of them are just suggestions (I think).

Even if you’re not adding code yourself, if you use the WP page editor, or any plugins, they both add code for you. So it could be one of those.