All “Comments are closed” why?

  • I am using Atahualpa and when I went on line tonight I noticed that every entry shows “Comments are closed.” and I am actually unable to make comments.

    Comments is enabled on the posts and in the set up – what happened and how do I fix it

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  • Hello there.

    What have you done before it happened?
    Maybe they are deactivated in database. If you want to activate them you must do in your database:

    UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = REPLACE (comment_status, 'closed', 'open') WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post';

    It will open closed comments in posts.

    P.S.: Make a DB backup before touching it!!!! ??

    Thread Starter ranney

    (@ranney)

    I did the upgrade at some point but thought it was working after that
    How do I do a DB backup?

    Two easy ways

    1. Go to your PHPMyAdmin and export the database.

    2. Use WP-DB-Backup plugin ??

    Thread Starter ranney

    (@ranney)

    is that under theme options?

    Nopes. PHPMyAdmin must be in your server (or any way to make a database backup, don’t know where it is in cPanel).

    WP-DB-Backup plugin can be installed in Plugins in your WP admin. And you can make a backup from Tools -> DB Backup.

    Thread Starter ranney

    (@ranney)

    OK now I have a backup

    Thread Starter ranney

    (@ranney)

    Now where do I find the post to activate comments

    It must be done in your database. If you have not access to it to execute the SQL code in #2, you must ask your site administrator to do it.

    Thread Starter ranney

    (@ranney)

    I am the administrator but not sure where to access the data base is that through c-panel?

    I had this very same problem. I solved it by upgrading to Atahualpa 3.4.4, the most recent version.

    https://wordpress.bytesforall.com/?p=81

    The instructions for upgrading in the last post in this thread, https://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=3378 , are pretty straightforward. Since all of the Atahualpa settings are stored in the database, they should automatically carry over to the new version.

    I was using 3.2, because I’d had issues with 3.3.2. So far, 3.4.4 seems to work okay for me, but I haven’t had time to really discover any problems if they do exist.

    Thread Starter ranney

    (@ranney)

    I have 2.9

    Thread Starter ranney

    (@ranney)

    I have a fair amount of photos would that have anything to do with the problem?

    Thread Starter ranney

    (@ranney)

    Won’t the error fransfer into the upgrade? The backup file has ther error in it.

    Any updates on this? I’m having the same issue. I upgraded to 2.9, then tried out the option to have comments close after a certain number of days passed. After I removed the option I noticed that none of my posts, even new ones, would allow comments, and that in browsers other than FF a number of comments appeared that didn’t relate to a given post. I tried to restore to a backup and that did not resolve the issue.

    ETA: All my comments already say “open” in the database, and other themes are working fine. This appears to be a theme issue.

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