Themes and comment boxes, frustrations oh my!

First I want to say thank you to those who have commented on my new blog post at aromaticallyyou.com? I appreciate them & love answering your questions! But that’s where the confusion sets in. I’ve had a process over the last few days and where my frustration level has come from.

I started my blog using the renden theme that had 3 feature boxes. Unfortunately I could not find any help on how to edit those boxes. I asked here at WA & received verification from others that they couldn’t find anything either. At least I’m not losing my mind!

While using the renden theme, I made a post that I was happy with but didn’t like how it looked on the live site with the 3 feature boxes I couldn’t change.

So I decided to change my theme to the twenty sixteen theme. Go reset all the general settings in the theme, All-in-one SEO plug-in, etc. My post carried over just fine as did my pages for privacy, about me & affiliate disclosure.

At this point I asked WA members to help out and make some comments. I received one comment right away then another member said there was no comment box on my post. I went &checked...by golly he was right! So how did the first post get there? Then I recieved 5 other comments but I still didn’t see a comment box on my post.

However I do see the comments on my static pages...about me & privacy policy. Next I went to check my settings.... in the theme I have all the right boxes checked about comments & no comments. I went in the back office for my post & the comment box is checked

My privacy Policy quick edit page

My post quick edit page

So confused! It looks like it should be working correctly but it’s not.

So I’m thinking about changing my theme again but how do I know the next one won’t do the same thing?

Going out to breakfast to rorganize my thoughts and mindset....food always helps!

Any comments/help are welcome & totally appreciated.

Lisa