Cannot access comments in multisite

You’re going to sub site.yoursite.com/wp-admin, right?

It’s a subdirectory, I’m clicking on the comments link from within the sub site dashboard, it’s just taking me elsewhere.

What happens if you access the URL directly?

Getting it means taking the URL you have and putting the subsite slug in the right spot. No clicking links. ??

This helps narrow down if it’s just the link generated on the page, or if it’s the page itself.

Okay so you go to yoursite.com/subsite/wp-admin ?? Same idea, and I just wanted to be sure you were on the right page.

The normal comments URL is yoursite.com/subsite/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

(what’s in your .htaccess file, BTW, if that doesn’t work)

It takes me to the dashboard, which I can access just fine, but on the left in the clickable list, if I click on “Comments”, instead of taking me to the comments page for that sub-site, it takes me back to the comments page for my main blog. Using the direct URL takes me back to the main blog, so it must be something wrong with the comments page itself. Checking my other sub-blogs, it looks like all of them have the same problem.

.htaccess is:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>

Plugins. ?? Start checking.

Actually … wrong .htaccess for SubFolder MultiSite. Try this. If not, do the plugin dance ??

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>

Seriously, I need to pay you to follow me around and proofread for me. ??

I just uploaded the new .htaccess, didn’t fix the problem. Then I deactivated all of my plugins. Still didn’t fix the problem. Any other ideas?

What does your sub-site look like from the front end? It shows everything okay with CSS etc?

Also, did you have any caching plugins?

Yes, it shows everything properly, so far as I can tell, the comments problem is the only thing that doesn’t work, but for both of my sub-sites, clicking on, or directly referencing the comments takes you back to the main site dashboard. I can post just fine to both sub-sites, everything works the way it’s supposed to.

Just in case, I just loaded up another browser and tried it, just in case it was something in the cache that was causing a problem and had the same issue.

All I can think of is plugin conflicts, which you said you tried. Anything in the mu-plugins folder?

As far as plugins are concerned, I don’t have that many and I can’t imagine any of them would be causing problems as I’ve used almost all of them for years.

add-to-any
akismet
all-in-one-seo-pack
diamond-multisite-widgets
intensedebate
star-ratings-forwordpress
stats
wp-cumulus
youtuber

Anything on that list typically cause problems?

diamond-multisite-widgets
star-ratings-forwordpress
stats
wp-cumulus

Any of these ones could, yes. Not specifically for the comments link, but I have seen each of these have issues.

As I said, I’ve disabled all plugins and the problem persisted, I could try deleting them and see if that helped, I suppose…