Comment box doesn’t appear in any theme

  • Hello,
    My client has migrated her content from a wordpress.com site to a www.remarpro.com platform with bluehost on the back end and a temporary URL for now.

    I have been hired to choose a theme and clean up her content. I am noticing that no comment box appears in any theme I choose. I have tried disabling all plugins, doing a bulk edit on posts to allow comments, and allowing comments on individual posts but I’ve never gotten a comment box to appear.

    I have a separate account for testing, so I’ve installed the themes there and I do see a comment box. So, I can rule out the theme being at fault.

    Does anyone know of any PHP I can configure to enable the comment box for posts? Or any further troubleshooting I can do?

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    As the content is from another site, many posts are probably old enough that the comments have been automatically closed. Go to the Discussion Settings and remove the check mark for “Automatically close comments on articles older than x days.”

    If that doesn’t help, go to the posts list screen and pick quick edit for a few posts and check mark the Allow Comments item, then click update. If that does the trick and there are a lot of posts to update, it could all be done by a custom script that sets the comment_status field of each post to ‘open’. For example, you could go into phpMyAdmin and run a query:
    UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status ='open' WHERE post_type ='post' AND post_status ='publish';

    Backup the DB before doing anything in phpMyAdmin. The query string also requires backticks aroud each table and field name. Using them here messes up the display.

    Thread Starter smiene07

    (@smiene07)

    Thanks SO much for this! It was as simple as removing the check mark. I am forever grateful.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    Hah! Even if I can’t be good all the time, I can at least sometimes get lucky!
    You’re welcome.

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