elliotlee

I’ve fixed it (sort of). I had to hack up:

wp-content/themes/default/comments.php
wp-comments-post.php

Basically, I removed all the stuff that checks if you’re a user, registered, login, user info, that sort of thing. Commenting works now (test it). This solution, while it isn’t pretty, works for me because I don’t want to require users to register.

Where is get_currentuserinfo() ?

Looking at the code, I think a value must be getting into $user_ID somehow. Where is this variable initialized?

Good idea. Unfortunately, it’s the same result:

Logged in as . Logout ??

I’ll leave it on Classic for now, so you can see.

Note that it’s the same with the default (new) theme.

To clarify, the blog is now using the default WordPress install with the original /wp-content/themes/default/comments.php.

I realized my code edit, although it made the name, email, and website boxes appear, did not cause them to actually function. The blog is now reverted back and the WordPress files are the original ones. The only change from a default install is that –

1) It is an upgrade, so the database is an old one; Yes, the upgrade.php file has been run.

2) I am using “pretty” permalinks with a custom .htaccess file.

That is all..

I have replaced it with the original version. I am using a fresh copy from a new WordPress download (wordpress-2.5-strayhorn.zip).

Deleting the section of code allowed the name and email boxes to show up, however, they did not work. Filling them out had no effect (it posted as Anonymous).

I also tried re-upgrading WordPress (downloaded the 1.5 zip, uploaded all files, copied my config.php, regenerated my .htaccess) and still no go.

Again, “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” is unchecked.

To clarify, yes, I had already unchecked it. It still does not appear to be working – see the site for example.

It is unchecked.

So the solution then is marking one category as primary? I don’t know of any existing mod to do this, but someone should be able to hack it together.

Interesting, but it looks like all the tabbed pages are downloaded at the same time the front tab is loaded. So I’m guessing this would be an enormous pain for dial-up users, although I’m not one myself.

I’m not familiar with MT, but I’m guessing it’s significantly different as far as structuring goes, especially because it’s a Perl script rather than PHP.
If you make the move, let us know what’s involved and maybe someone will look into creating an automatic tool.

Hm, have the developers seen this yet?

Yes, same problem here. The config file creator in this version of wp is broken.

Does your webserver have PHP? Is it not parsing the page (so you’re seeing lots of source code)?