Cannot post comments

I am having the exact problem.

I have just upgraded from 1.5.3 to 2.0.2. Everything else works except the comments. All my old comments remain, but no one can post new comments. When I click on the comment button, it just opens the same site page again.

There must be some sort of filter at my work, because I can post comments from my home computer just fine.

there are a small handful of people i know who get the exact same error.

Hi Catryan,

I went up to 2.0.3 last week and like you am getting the same behaviour – noone can post a comment.

Haven’t found a solution/explanation yet but will keep on plugging away!

As per above, I’ve just stepped through the code and found the problem symptom in comments.php:
Line 70 comments.php
<?php if ( get_option(‘comment_registration’) && !$user_ID ) : ?>
You must be /wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php the_permalink(); ?>”>logged in to post a comment.
<?php else : ?>

As you can see above, the variable user_ID is the culprit (although I also took the redirect to the permalink in the login url below this code – it never allowed you to login and just threw you back to the permalink).

Even when someone goes and logs in, when they navigate back to a particular post, the user_ID variable is not set and as a result they could never post.

As a stop gap solution, I have edited out this code to allow for user comments.

All the best,
Tom

Would this be classified as a bug, then? Maybe something that can be changed in the future?