How to Enable Threaded Comments in Customized Blogger-Blogspot Templates
Blogger-Blogspot has recently introduced much-awaited feature of threaded commenting. Now, users can reply to a comment and the comment owner will get an email notification. Naturally, I was also excited about it so, I enabled this feature on my heavily customized template. But it didn't work. I was lucky enough to have an old backup file of Simple Blogger-Blogspot template. After doing some coding, I found it quite easy to integrate the threaded comments in the Simple Blogger-Blogspot template. Please note that this is not a properly tested tutorial. Your template might have different codes. So, follow the steps carefully.
Steps to Enable Threaded Comments
- First of all make sure that your blog feed is set to Full. You can confirm that by going to Settings > Other and then selecting Full from the Allow Blog Feed dropdown.
- You must also have embedded comment form enabled. Check that by going to Settings > Posts and Comments and check the Comment Location dropdown.
- After that, open the Template section.
- Click the Edit HTML button.
- A new window will open. You'd have to click the Proceed button to start editing.
- Check Expand Widget Templates option.
- Find the following line of code:
Caution: Please Backup your current template before moving on.
Once you've found the above line, you'll see this piece of code:
