Ron: Single template has no comments / comment form

[supernovia]

Quick summary

Ron is a blogging theme, but it doesn't have a comment form or a way to display comments built in.

Steps to reproduce

To duplicate:

1. Activate Ron on a site that has posts with comments
2. View a post that has comments open
3. Notice there is no comment form
4. Edit the Single template
5. Notice there is no comment form there either

What you expected to happen

I expect a blogging theme to have comments by default.

What actually happened

There's no comment form or comments displayed

Browser

Google Chrome/Chromium, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, iOS Safari, Android Chrome

Context

User report: https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/trouble-transitioning-from-old-theme-to-new-theme/

Platform (Simple, Atomic, or both?)

Simple, Atomic, Self-hosted

Other notes

We had the same issue in Creatio: https://github.com/Automattic/themes/issues/7402

Reproducibility

Consistent

Severity

Some (< 50%)

Available workarounds?

Yes, difficult to implement

Workaround details

Edit the template and add a comment form and comments display yourself, but it's not easy for users to do that and get it looking nice.

[cuemarie]

📌 REPRODUCTION RESULTS

• Tested on Simple – Replicated

📌 FINDINGS/SCREENSHOTS/VIDEO Replicated - on a new site with comments on by default, theme Ron shows no comments form on the single template:

📌 ACTIONS

• Triaged
• added to Bug Scrub planning

[dsas]

Some discussion on this: p1701208343086179-slack-C029FM1EH

[kathrynwp]

Another report of missing Comments in Ron: 7381408-zd-a8c

It was so long to add it back in chat in chat that they switched to another theme instead.

IMO single post templates should always have the blocks needed to display or leave comments. The ability to leave comments is already controlled in Settings > Discussion. It is super super confusing for users to have those missing by default.

[github-actions[bot]]

Support References

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• [ ] 7381408-zen

[beafialho]

Thank you for reporting, this makes sense. This should be fixed once the changes in #7563 are reviewed and deployed.