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02 Jul 2009, 02:15
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Lee Michaelson (9 posts)

I’m loving these tutorials, the best info I’ve seen on how to use Expression Engines (for which I’m a total novice). But after slavishly following the instructions on the video (and cutting and pasting the provided code), I still have comment “forms” that have no place to enter Name, Email or Comments (those worked fine until I followed the directions to insert the Expression Engines tags and a Related Articles section that delivers zero related articles (and also doesn’t return the text “There are no related articles for this article”)—depending on where you place the “close expression engine tag” it either returns nothing at all or else the raw code for the field names.

Here’s the code, modified only very slightly from the tutorial source code, can anyone tell me where I’m going astray?

Reader Discussion
{exp:comment:entries weblog=”news_articles”}
Posted by {name} {comment_date format=”%F %d, %Y”}
{comment}
{/exp:comment:entries}
Comment on this News Article

We welcome your comments on this news story. Please complete the form to the left to add to the conversation.

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<!- END #disclaimer -> {exp:comment:form}

Name

Email Address

Comment
{comment}

{/exp:comment:form}
<!- END #comment-form ->

Related Articles

{exp:weblog:entries weblog=”news_articles” limit=”3” related_categories_mode=”on” custom_fields=”on” status=”Open|Top Story|Featured Top Story”} {if no_results}

There are no related articles

{/if}

{title}

By {author}
{article_excerpt}

Read Story

<!- END #related-articles ->

Can anyone help? Thanks.
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