UGH! Where fort art thou Comments?

What version did you upgrade from?
Did you run wp-admin/upgrade.php?
Are the comments still there in the db if you look using phpmyadmin?
Do you have a backup of the database prior to upgrading?

I can’t think of any other relavent questions at the moment.

1: 1.5.1.3 (I think?)
2: Yes
3: Yes comments still in DB. Comments work if I apply default template
4: Yes database is backed up

Ok. Looks like we need to check the contents of the files in the theme you are using.

Looking at the pages your current theme generates they are missing calls to pull in the footer for starters and probably the comments/comments form.

Could you make a zip of you theme and post a link to it so I can look at the files or if you prefer to email them let me know

I have a .zip of my theme here westi: https://www.dogmaticblog.com/dogmatic.zip

thanks for your time in all this. much appreciated.

It seems to be a common problem for folks who’ve installed 1.5 according to the support pages here – but i can’t for the life of me work out how to fix it. (Hey I’m a designer not a coder!) ??

If I apply the default theme to the blog, the comments work so its obviously a prob with my theme… somewhere… somehow.

Ok i’ve had a quick look. I got quite a few php errors when i enabled your theme – the first two seemed to be to do with an image rotator which I assume wasn’t included in the zip.

I have the following suggestions:

1. index.php line 157 change <?php include(ABSPATH . 'comments.php'); ?> <?php /*include(ABSPATH . 'comments.php'); */?> – This looks completely wrong to me the line after it will pull in the comments/comments form automatically

With this change made and the image rotation calling commented out along with this commented out <?php ShowRustLinkoffs(); ?> (on line 126 of index.php). I can see the comments fine on my test install.

Let me know if these changes don’t fully solve your problems – you may not be seeing php errors if you host has them disabled/ignored.

Westi you are a star! It now works!

Thank you for this. I owe you one so if you need anything from me – just let me know.

Again, thank you sir!

Glad I could help!