@robert thank you, making sense now. I appreciate the assistance.

@robert Thanks. I've tried the deactivation/activation of plugins, and the theme switch, but no luck.   What finally worked was upgrading to ...

and on the page (deactivated)  Screen-Shot-2020-04-09-at-5.26.42-PM.png

with wpForo deactivated (comments working properly)  Screen-Shot-2020-04-09-at-5.27.49-PM.png

as shown on the page (there should be 3 comments)  Screen-Shot-2020-04-09-at-5.28.46-PM.png

@robert I did a little testing on this and could replicate on a local test server - attached is a screenshot showing with plugin activated. You can se...

@alvina thanks, this add-on is close to what I am asking. Wordpress allows for comments on both blog posts and pages. We have comments already on a fe...

@robert thanks for the quick response. I will play with it. What about migrating existing comments into wpForo?