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Approximately a year ago, while I was starting to work with WordPress and trying out different plugins, I had encountered problems trying to integrate plugins that used MooTools and plugins that use jQuery. I had posted a possible solution in there as well. Here are solutions from jQuery site, if you want to know more.

So, after a year with playing around a lot of plugins that uses mootools / scriptaculous and other plugins that uses jQuery (which I prefer), I want to share one easy solution that I have found. I haven’t had any problems till now with this solution and I have been using and recommending to to all my themes.

You do not have to define and noConflict function as recommended by jQuery site. Simply, refrain from using $ as a shortcut to jQuery which means that you have to use jQuery in place of all $ used by your jQuery code. So, your code will look something like this:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
   jQuery("div").hide();
});

I know its a bit tedious but it works well without having to take all the headaches of what is happening. So, while your jQuery plugin work perfectly, you can enjoy the features from other plugins using MooTools or other libraries.

Happy Thanksgiving to all. Once again, I would like to personally thank everyone for being a part of WPshoppe.

I have been working with WordPress themes for more than a year now and while most of the time, I am only using the default theme and changing the codes and styles as I want, one question has been circling my mind all this time. How do I enable comments in pages and not just posts?

First, I thought it was not possible. I have been getting quite many pingbacks and trackbacks on pages too but even though I approve them from my admin area, I don’t see anything on the page when I visit it. I never thought twice of what might be the cause. I always thought, well its not possible in pages.

Anyway, I just got a question from Kurt about this and a few times earlier. I never looked at the possibility but had this in mind, maybe the page doesn’t have comment template function call. I didn’t look at the code fully. Page.php was always what it was.

So, I just had some time and looked at page.php. Indeed, this was pretty simple. I compared with single.php and I didn’t see comment template call on page.php. I did a quick testing by putting this code:

<?php comments_template(); ?>

and saw the the page. Voila, there it was!

So, if anyone else is having this very problem of “how to enable comments on pages”, here is what you have to do. Put this code

<?php comments_template(); ?>

right before your closing content div. So, the code might look something like this:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content">
<?php // all page content goes here ?>
<?php comments_template(); ?>
</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

I would love to know if you have any other ideas about how to enable comments on pages. This might not be so important since Pages aren’t there for commenting in the first place. I guess thats why the default themes (or most) doesn’t have this enabled.