burlesona

No buddyPress.

Bah… I think I figured out the issue. Whatever display name you’re using at the time that you submit a comment sticks to the comment forever – if you change your display name later then NEW comments will use the new display name but old ones stay the same.

Is there any way to change this behavior, or is this permanently baked in?

Very interesting.

For the benefit of the community, it turns out the problem comes from including a theme options page stored in any file other than “functions.php”

I had my theme options code in a file called “theme_options.php” and included it in functions.php by using: require_once “theme_options.php”

When I moved the code back into the functions.php file it worked fine.