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Thank you kindly! That’s exactly what I was hoping to find out ??

SOLVED! But now a whole different question emerges — somehow, all of my previous posts had “Allow comments to this post” under “Discussion” in the posting template had been miraculously unchecked.

Either this was a deliberate hack?

Or, somehow, upgrading the WP to v. 2.8.2, the plugins (Aksimet, SEO Optimizer, or RSS Footer) overwrites the ability to allow posts?

I’m leaving this one unresolved — I cannot be the ONLY one who’s experienced this can I?

Sorry, not trying to bump this, just an update —

Apparently it’s not a subscriber problem — a non-subscriber just responded to my recent post where there IS a comment box but there is still no comment box for the other posts.

Additionally, it might be important to note I upgraded to 2.8.2 a few days ago but even then the problem didn’t exist until a day or two afterward. I wonder if I was somehow hacked? Thanks again…

Well, damn — that’s weird! I just went to post an update to my readers to let them know I’m aware of the problem and have reached out for a resolution and the comment box appeared underneath as it should have, yet all of the previous posts were still missing the box.

My discussion settings are as always — auto-close comments after 20 days, so I’m still at a loss here…

OOPS — URL is: https://guntotingliberal.com

My bad :-/

I also had the blank white page problems described above and followed the advice of deactivating and reactivating plugins one by one. The culprit in my case was the Nofollow Reciprocity plugin. Deactivated it, sent a heads up to the plugin author and all is good again. The reason I added my two cents is because of the popularity of this plugin via the download metrics and ratings, which means there are a LOT of folks using it.

Hope this helps ??

Okay, my fellow Liberal, we can go ahead and close this one thanks to your kind help and VERY good software suggestion ??

I was a bit afraid of Beyond Compare at first, because I’m certainly no “geek”, but once I surfed around it a bit, it wasn’t too hard to figure out after all. I found LOTS of discrepances between the two sources when displayed side by side and I fixed the important ones. BUT – in the end, oddly enough, it wasn’t the Beyond Compare software that solved the problem but for the fact it got me crawling around in my Journalized Theme files again and I found the problem finally.

The issue was with the width of the comment text area of the comments.php file. Originally, it was set by Mike Little (I assume) as follows:

<textarea name=”comment” id=”comment” style=”width:38em” cols=”65″ rows=”10″ tabindex=”4″></textarea>

I changed the width value to 35em and that solved the overlap problem.

Thanks again for your help and your excellent tip ??

Thank you. I had downloaded the program, but I’ve never really worked this intensely with codes before, so I was a bit afraid of it ?? I’ll check into it though, and thanks again for all of your help ??

Hey, thank you for the tips and pointers. I cleaned much of it up, but some of it was due to javascript code as provided by hosts; stuff I really don’t want to get rid of. But I have done away with many of the errors; thank you again.

As for the column getting wider for single posts than for the index.php layout, it still remains, and I’d sure like to cure that if possible.

Anybody?

Unclosed </div> tag was the problem. In case anybody cares ??

Heck, I just got the same thing (white, blank page) when I went to comment to another’s comment. It worked, but I wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t have gone back to the main URL and refreshed. I also just cleared my cache and tried to log in; same white page (with no error by the way), but I wasn’t able to do it. Can’t write a post, can’t access my dashboard, etc.

Has anybody else ever run into this before?

Whooami – thanks for the quick response. I’m a newbie, so writing plugins is way ahead of me at this point. Are you saying that all I’d have to do is add:

overflow:auto; white-space:nowrap;

somewhere in my CSS template and that’ll fix the problem? If so, does it matter where in the template I place it?

The other option you mentioned sounds good too, because it is only the clickable URL’s that are knocking my theme out of whack. How would I go about it, or would the first option be better/easier?

Thanks again…

Okay… figured it out myself. For other noobs in the same position, I went to the index.php file and found:

<p class=”bottomauthor”>This post was authored by <?php the_author();?>

And added a break at the top of it. I.E.,

<br/>
<p class=”bottomauthor”>This post was authored by <?php the_author();?>

Problem solved!

Just wanted to say, I appreciated this thread very much. I had the same question as the original poster and the fix worked beautifully. Thanks again…

Never mind – I emailed the author and he fixed the link. Thx –