Blogger Dedicated Comment Page

You can have comments enabled for all of your posts and pages. But what if you want a dedicated page in your blog just for comments? Yes you can! Your readers could leave generic shoutouts in that dedicated comment page, just like regular comments from your posts. And it is so easy to do!

Step 1:

If you're using the old Blogger interface: Go to Dashboard - Edit Posts - Edit Pages - New Page

If you're using the new Blogger interface: Go to Dashboard - Pages - New Page - Blank Page

Insert an appropriate Page Title, like 'Comments'. Leave the editor box empty. Then, click on Post Options - Reader Comments - Allow - Publish Page.

Step 2:

Click on View Page and get the address of this dedicated page.

Step 3:

At this point, your comment page should be up and running already. Make sure you have Pages gadget installed to have your blog pointing a link to your comment page. In this last step, we want to remove all other page elements from the comment page to give the page some character (it's dedicated, you see?)


If you're using the old Blogger interface: Go to Dashboard - Design - Edit HTML - Back Up (Download Full Template) -

If you're using the new Blogger interface: Go to Dashboard - Template - Backup/Restore - Download Full Template - Close -  Edit HTML - Proceed - 

Find for </b:skin> - Paste the following directly below </b:skin>:

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == &quot;http://www.test4.southernspeakers.net/p/comments.html&quot;'>
<style>
.post.hentry{
display:none;
}
</style>
</b:if>

In the code above, modify the URL address in Line 1 to that of your comment page. Click on Save Template when you are done.

The code in place:

There, you're ready to go. Your own dedicated comment page. Have fun.