I can't see the comments on my Blogger posts

Question

When checking my Blogger account I can see that there are some comments on the posts. Most have just one comment - which I'm sure are the "ping back" comment from me sharing the post on Google+.

However, one has 3 comments, but I'm unable to see them.

The "3" (1) is underlined and the cursor changes to a hand when I hover over it. However, clicking does nothing.

I also noticed that when I click the "3" a shield icon (2) appears in the address bar. Clicking that shows a little dialog that states:

This page includes script from unauthorised sources.

• Is it safe to load this script?
• Is there any way I can view this script?

I would like to think that the script is from Google, but just on a http connection rather than https, but I'm in a suspicious mood today. Even after loading the "unsafe" script I still can't see the comments.

Ultimately I just want to review the comments on my blog.

Answer 1

I checked your blog and I see it uses Blogger Dynamic Templates. Firstly, to solve the problem with the comments not showing under the post.

Your blog doesn't have a commonly used fix in the template (its absence has known to cause issues with sidebar not appearing, comment form not appearing, custom CSS not applying). I suggest you do the following changes in your template.

Before you proceed, please backup your template by going to Template → Backup/Restore → Download Full Template, so that you can switch back to it if anything goes wrong while editing.

Once you have a backup of your blog template, go to Template → Edit HTML and you will see the editor come up. Scroll down to the bottom of your template, to where you see code that looks like this:

<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>
    setTimeout(function() {
        blogger.ui().configure().view();
    }, 0);
</script>

Change the 0 to 500 so it looks like this:

<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>
    setTimeout(function() {
        blogger.ui().configure().view();
    }, 500);
</script>

Click on Save Template. And now check your blog; you should be able to see the comments.

About not being able to see the comments in the Blogger dashboard, that’s because Google+ comments aren't fully integrated with Blogger dashboard currently. Another way to check the comments you have received is by going to Google+ and searching your blog post URL (search the blogspot.com version not the ccTLD ones).

Also, Blogger is now rolling out a new feature which sends a Google+ notification when anybody comments on your post (see screenshot).