[Plugin: PhotoContest Plugin] Comments not showing up

Can you tell me the WP-version and plugin version?

Thanks,
Frank

It’s the latest WP 3.0.1.

I have created a test contest for you to see. Comments was set to open.

https://www.corsetstyles.com/test

Thanks for your help.

Has something to do with your template. Still looking for à fix!

I’ve checked the way WordPress handles the comments.
It isn’t possible to show comments on a page (expect with a separate plugin). Comments in this plugin don’t work…. expect when you create a contest as a post and put the post on a page. This way only the first page of the contest is able to handle comments!

Sorry to mislead you!!

So just to be clear:

Using the following settings:
Page type set to Page AND comments set to Open; a page is created to hold the contest. This page has the option Allow comments set to true.
(You will find this under “Pages” –> edit page –> Discussion –> Allow comments)

For some reason, WordPress has this option, but doesn’t do anything with it, because looking into the core of WordPress I find the following (in wp-includes/comment-template.php on line 852):

function comments_template( $file = '/comments.php', $separate_comments = false ) {
    global $wp_query, $withcomments, $post, $wpdb, $id, $comment, $user_login, $user_ID, $user_identity, $overridden_cpage;

    if ( !(is_single() || is_page() || $withcomments) || empty($post) )
        return;

Here in the last line I see !(is_page()). This tell the core to return nothing about comments when it is a page.

So why is this option under pages? I don’t know… maybe some ancient code left in the core or a option for plugins who can show comments under pages….

If someone finds such a plugin and has a page working with comments, please post it here. I will try to integrate this into the plugin.

For now, I’m giving up ??

I found this:
<?php comments_template(); ?>

This added to page.php will enable comments on your pages. Although I got comments working on other pages it does not work on viewimg.php. I pasted it in viewimg.php and it still did nothing.

Thanks for the help so far. I will keep looking for a plugin to add comments to pages.

I think the problem is that the viewimg.php is not actually set up as a page where it calls to page.php. I am a total novice so I may be way off here but is there a way to add code to viewimg.php to make it call to page.php?

I have put the code: <?php comments_template(); ?> into the template (skins/aqua/template.tpl) so it is called with every page of the plugin BUT it doesn’t work. The function comments_template checks if it is a page, has a post on it and some other checks and that fails….

If I have time I will look into it!

Greets,
Frank

Hey Frekel…just wanted to say thanks again for the awesome plug in. I have a photo contest up and running now and ppl seem to like it a lot.

I did have an issue you should know about.

My photo contest was up and running for several days and without making any changes I went to my contest page and found that the page had an error. Said it was missing a template file and to view the read me file. Everything was fine so I’m not sure what caused that.

I know you posted an update and for some reason I think that had something to do with it. I wasn’t going to apply the update until after my monthly contest was over but I did anyway to try to solve the error.

Everything seems to be working fine now. Thanks again!

Jason

Great!

That error indicated that the template.tpl file in your skins-directory was missing.

Thanks for the compliment… ??