Checkbox in Comment Form not showing – code snippet needed?

  • Resolved mitchpowell

    (@mitchpowell)


    6 years, 6 months ago

    For reasons too involved to explain, the acceptance checkbox that’s supposed to appear after the textarea and before the submit button, isn’t showing up on my comments forms. Any single post allows comments, but the checkbox isn’t getting written to the comments template.

    I could edit this theme’s functions.php or comments.php files to effect this functionality if I had a code snippet I could add that calls the WP GDPR parameters. I don’t quite have coding skills for this, but perhaps it’s a simple fix?

    The theme can’t be changed at this time. although I can customize it w/o fear of updates overwriting it. I’m hoping for a workaround to meet GDPR compliance.

    Thank you for your very efficient responses to all the questions here, and for such a great plugin.

    I’m using it in another couple places, and I’ll be enjoying its development as it gets better.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • I can see you’ve already fixed it?

    Thread Starter mitchpowell

    (@mitchpowell)

    Thank you for such a quick reply.
    Not really.
    I just copied the code from my other website’s source and pasted it into the theme’s “comments.php” file. My guess is that it’s not really hooking as it needs to, to your plugin.

    Also, the wp_mail() function isn’t going to work with this old theme either. I hope to convince the site owner to update to a modern theme, but in the meantime, it looks as if I’m not going to fully become compliant.

    Thread Starter mitchpowell

    (@mitchpowell)

    I’m going to mark this as resolved because this is my theme’s fault. I may need to modify my theme to have the right hooks, but a new theme would be a better plan all the way around.

    I’m guessing other people stuck in the theme they’re using, might come to the same conclusion that I’ve come to: which is that my theme needs modernization. ??

    I’m having the same problem. I’ve tried every plugin available and none of them work. The checkbox is not visible and people cannot comment without getting an error telling them they must check the box that isn’t there…. ??

    @iscreambooks; Contact your theme developer. They need to make sure the necessary WordPress filters/actions are added to the theme. This is necessary for our plugin to hook into it and add the necessary checkboxes.

    @mitchpowell; Have you fixed the issue with your theme already?

    My theme developer is being totally uncooperative and will only assist if I pay $79.00 for someone on staff to assist me. My theme is Cherry. ??

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