I made a separate blog page and posted my first post. The problem is there is no comments/discussion box on the page so there is no way for people to comment. I went to blog page and blog post and tried checking and un-checking comments and discussion by going to pages>screen options. I also tried checking and un-checking allow comments in the discussion sectionwith no result.
An oddity worth mentioning re my query above: short blog posts DO show comment box; longer blog posts DO NOT. Does this mean there’s a page-length issue in the code?
@mderuntz Just visited your site. The comment section that you are using is not the WordPress default one. It is coming from some other plugin, may posting a query to the plugin author/support might support better help.