Show \"Leave reply\" link or comment box in frontpage, below each post

Hi there!

Well… I’m a bit the opposite of the trend around here, given that the usual topic about the Comments around here is about how to disable them ^.^

Some months ago I changed the template of my blog (www.erekibeon.com/blog) to Tempera, and since then I have noticed the number of comments have been decreasing. Last week I got some feedback from an usual reader, and told me that he still didn’t know how to find the Comment box when he entered the front page of the blog. He didn’t realize that little icon on top where you can go to the comments.

So I have been looking for a way to bring back the comment box below each post, or at least to present a “leave a reply” link in that place. The methods I have used have been inserting codes like this:

global $withcomments;
$withcomments = 1;
comments_template( ‘ ‘, true );

or this one:

<?php
$withcomments = 1; // force comments form and comments to show on front page
comments_template();
?>

inside the functions.php, index.php, theme-frontpage.php and template-twocolumns-right.php (the one my blog is using), but to no avail.

So, besides inserting manually a link in each post when I write them, is there a method to make the comments appear in the front page automatically?

Thank you in advance! and sorry for my poor english 😉