How to add a comment form to your blogger view post page

Blogger is one of the most popular free blogging service providers out there. Yet again another free service from the kitty of Google. Blogger is a reasonably user friendly blogging platform except for its theming capabilities. If you don't customize anything you can configure most of the stuff through the blogger admin interface but if you did something then you will have to do everything subsequently as well. A very simple task like showing the comment form below the posts requires you to fiddle with the template xml file, if you are already using a customized template.

Technically it has a very good theming interface which more or less leaves the presentation completely to the end user. The problem however is that the abstraction is done using XML and not too many lay users would be knowing how to fiddle with the template to get expected results. This however opens the door to lot of service providers to offer blogger customizations to people who are xml-ly challenged. If you have stumbled across this post trying to figure out how to show the comment form below the posts here is how.

If you have not customized your blog template then it is just a matter of going to

Blogger Home > Settings > Comments > Comment Form Placement

and setting "Embedded below post"

If you have already customized your blog template then the above will not work.
You will have to include the following code snippet somewhere in the <b:includable id='post' var='post'> tag below the post-labels preferably.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/>
</b:if>


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