Strange dropdown comments issues

Hard to help when there’s a “Please stand by” message with no links :).

OOPS. Fixed now. ??

Where is this plugin available? The reason they’re not displayed on the same line is that that link is placed inside its own div — so it can be shown and hidden, of course — which is a new block-level element. You could try spans instead of divs, but without the plugin code I couldn’t tell you how to change it. Similar with the “no comment no link” thing.

https://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2004/06/06/showhide-comments-in-wordpress-ii/ – that’s the page with the plugin.

Bump.

The reason the space is blank is because this code tests for “if( $comments )” and does nothing if there are none. You could have an else clause right around the “} //end if comments” part that displays some kind of link to your “make a comment” section. In terms of the “same line” part, as I said above try changing the “comLink…” div to be a span and see if that gives you what you want.

I don’t know how to do an else clause…pretty much clueless about php. I tried editing the $comments = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $tablecomments WHERE comment_post_ID = '$id' AND comment_approved = '1' ORDER BY comment_date"); by adding another AND comments_number = '%', but that gave me an error: “WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘comments_number’ in ‘where clause’]”. Changing the div to a span did solve that problem though, thanks so much!

Nevermind, figured it out after much hair-pulling. Thank you for your help!

Grrrr…issues arising again. Whenever I try to actually post a comment using the dropdown comments, it redirects to a blank wp-comments-post.php page. However, when I post a comment from the permalink page, it works fine. The code for the dropdown comments file can be found here. Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong?