In Blogger templates a separate page has been used for posting comments on a blog. But now they have enabled an embedded comment form, which is available in all standard Blogger templates.

To use the embedded form you will need to go to the Settings>Comments page from your Dashboard and scroll down to find the “Comment Form Placement” settings and select the radio button for “Embedded below post”. Then scroll to the bottom of the page and save the new setting.

If you are using one of Bloggers templates you will now have a much neater embedded comment form. However, if you have customised your template or are using a third party template it will probably not work. You will need to add a simple line of code.

First go to Layout>Edit HTML and take the sensible precaution of clicking on “Download Full Template” in case of disasters. Then tick the “Expand Widget Templates” box and, using your browser’s Search or Find tool, look for the following line of code:

<b:include data='post' name='comments'/>

Then add the following line of code immediately below this.

<b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/>

When you have done this save your template and you should now have the embedded comment form available in your blog. Remember that the form will only show on the individual post pages and not on the Home Page of your blog.

For a more in depth article see this post by Amanda Fazani on Blogger Buster.

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