Venue Comments disabled?

[Carl]

Comments appear to be disabled for venues. Calling wp’s comments_open() will always return false. I of course have comments enabled in the global settings.

[Barry]

Hi Carl,

The venue type is declared without support for comments. To add support you could place this snippet in your theme’s functions.php file. Note that you may also then have to edit the venue(s) and enable Allow comments (in the “Discussion” metabox, which will probably display right below where the Venue Information is entered).

This might not be sufficient in itself, depending on your theme, but would at least take care of some of the initial work you’d need to do.

[Barry]

… And to follow up, it turns out that The Events Calendar will also try to “kill” the comment form (since venues don’t natively support comments). So, to workaround that, you would also need to add a snippet like this one to your theme’s functions.php file.

Let me know if that gets you closer.

[Author]

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