Unable to comment

  • Comments are enabled for all posts.

    If I access a post from the “all posts” page, it allows me to write the comment, but when I try to post it just a “You Lose! Good Day Sir!” notice appears in red font below the comments window.

    If I try to leave a comment from the post itself, by clicking the “Leave a comment” option, it takes me to a page stating “Oops! That page can’t be found.”, and below: “It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try a search?”

    Does anybody knows how to fix this? Thank you in advance.

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  • Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    – re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder and wp-config.php & root .htaccess files – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    Thread Starter algunillo

    (@algunillo)

    Thanks for your reply, @esmi.

    – I deactivated all plugins. This allows me to post comments if I select the post from the “all posts” page, but comments cannot be posted nor read from the post itself (so only admins and editors could post and read comments, I think). If I try to read or post a comment from the post, I get again the “Oops! That page can’t be found.” page.

    – Cannot decide which is the default theme. When I started the blog (one week ago) there were three themes to choose from. Now I went to the themes page again, found the same three themes, could not know which one was default.

    – Tried PhpMyAdmin, but it says I must look for the active_plugins row in the option_name column, but there is not such a row, even if I activate again some plugins and refresh the PhpMyAdmin page.

    – Tried FileZilla, but when adding my domain it shows the following:
    Resolving address of mydomain.com
    Status: Connecting to 108.167.181.69:21…
    Status: Connection established, waiting for welcome message…
    Response: 220———- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ———-
    Response: 220-You are user number 3 of 150 allowed.
    Response: 220-Local time is now 10:16. Server port: 21.
    Response: 220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
    Response: 220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
    Command: AUTH TLS
    Error: Connection timed out after 20 seconds of inactivity
    Error: Could not connect to server

    – How can I access the folders to delete? Should I do that before downloading WordPress again? I am willing to start the blog again from scratch if it will solve the problem, but do not know how to do it.

    I have looked at several forums, and nobody seems to have a similar problem. I have been stuck with this for three days by now.

    Thread Starter algunillo

    (@algunillo)

    I finally found the active_plugins row in the option_name column. It was set at a:0:{}, as required. I changed the value, then entered that one again, but it did not work.

    Thread Starter algunillo

    (@algunillo)

    After 4 days of managing files, reading all documentation, etc., I finally found which the problem was:

    In the permalink section, I selected to put an additional word for a given category (the only one existing up to now).

    For some reason, that upset everything: For visitors, posts could only be reached from the category widget, and comments could not be posted nor read.

    Erasing that word fixed everything.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by algunillo.
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