How to make comment form appear under your post in Blogger

An embedded under your post comment form is a new cool and long anticipated feature of Blogger. It minimizes the effort needed to leave a reply in your blog, thus raising the chance your blog visitors will leave their opinion.

All of the Blogger standard templates got updated with the new embedded comment form code, though the feature is still considered 'in draft', and you will have to login into 'Blogger in Draft' version of blog control UI to enable it.

To enable embedded under your post comment form in Blogger:

1. Go to blogger in draft dashboard
2. Optionally check the Make Blogger in Draft my default dashboard checkbox in the upper right corner if you want to always stay on bleeding-edge front of Blogger features.
3. Press the 'Settings' link under your blog name
4. Choose Comments tab
5. Select 'Embedded below post' radiobutton option for Comment Form Placement setting.
6. Press the Save Settings button in the bottom of the page.

Now, if you use a standard Blogger template, all your post pages should receive a fancy embedded inline comment form.
In case you, just like me, use a custom template, you might need to update the template manually:

1. Open Dashboard->Layout->Edit HTML
2. Click Expand Widget Templates checkbox
3. Find the following lines:<p class='comment-footer'>
<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>
<data:postCommentMsg/>
</a>
</b:if>
</p>
4. Replace it with the following:<p class='comment-footer'>
<b:if cond='data:post.embedCommentForm'>
<b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>
<data:postCommentMsg/>
</a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</p>
5. Save the template.

Done. Feel free to experiment later with the template code of comment-form widget :)
Meanwhile, enjoy :)

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