Comments Closed on All Posts Over 6 Days Old on TWO blogs

tico, I’m not sure what you mean by “a scheduled process or a cron somewhere.” My issue was similar to what many others experienced.

I don’t have the issue now, but am hoping to help bring this to the forefront for those still experiencing it.

I’m facing the same problem.

I had a thought that maybe something got messed up in an upgrade process. So I’m waiting for 3.1 and when that comes out, I will try to upgrade in such way that certainly fixes everything.

Also I thought that this could be somehow tied to “a scheduled process or a cron somewhere.” but I can’t track that down.

My host is ipower

Actually, I think the plugin above that tico007 mentions is the answer to this problem. I installed it and turned all my comments on at one touch. Plus there’s an auto box to automatically keep it that way, so I think that will overrule any bug out there for now….

OK. It just happened to me again. But on a DIFFERENT blog. And this time, I just about “saw” it happen.

I was on the blog (not in the admin area), replying to a comment. I submitted the comment. It kind of cranked for a few minutes, then finally posted the comment, but when the page refreshed ALL the blog comments were closed. Ack!

Here’s the blog:

Mormon Momma

Fortunately rjayton had posted (in a similar thead) about the Extended Comment Options plugin (thank you thank you), so I installed that and opened all comments. Then I went to the SAME post, replied again to another comment, submitted. NO PROBLEMS.

WORDPRESS, THERE IS A PROBLEM!

Checking page source on “Mormon Momma” I see a plugin called “commentluv”. Went over to creators website, see a reference to an issue on the “commentluv” network regarding auto-closing and spam. If this plugin is running on all your blogs, disable one and see if the problem goes away.

Mormon Momma didn’t used to have this problem, but I disabled ALL plugins on ALL the other blogs and the bug still occurred.

If you read the first comment in this thread you’ll see that.

Right now I’m having this problem ONLY on MormonMomma, even though I have CommentLuv running on two other blogs as well. :/

Note that the plugin “fix” doesn’t change the “Users must be registered and logged in to comment,” you have to manually fix that as well.

tico007, I just checked the link you sent. Not sure how this relates. This is the CommenLuv creator, but he’s just saying that he created a DIFFERENT plugin to auto close old posts on blogs that are on HIS network. (You can have a CommentLuv blog on his server if you are a registered CommentLuv user.)

This has nothing to do with any of my blogs — or most blogs. Unless I misunderstood you?

I thought that because your having comment problems, and have a comment plug-in deployed it could be causing issues. If this problem is widespread and not unique to your configuration(s), there will be a flood of people replying to this who can help you better than me. If, as in my case, the comments were close during an upgrade or some other change, use my suggestion above (Extended Comment Options), and you should have no further issues.

As I said, I have had the issues occur with plugins and with no plugins at all (even Akismet disabled). I’ve had it with the Thesis theme and with the default theme. I’ve had it occur (once) when I was posting a comment from the admin area, but more often than not when there was no site activity other than visitors reading the site.

The plugin you refer to reverts the erroneous settings, but does not keep them from occurring again.

Alison, at this point, open a trac ticket with your info. It’s not a reliably reproducible bug, in that it’s rare and wildly uncommon, so you will have to be willing to work with the devs, if they can sort it out.

Just coming back to say IT’S B-A-A-A-CK.

Only took a few minutes to change permissions, so admin doesn’t have to approve, don’t have to register, etc, and turn comments all back on, thx to Alison’s suggestion a while back, but still very annoying. This has happened on 2 out of 4 blogs. It’s probably been a couple of months since the last time, so Ipstenu is right, it’s irregular. I don’t know if it’s uncommon – lots of people don’t know how to complain.

Interestingly, Ipower was down for an hour last week, and also 2 days ago – I’m wondering if that had something to do with this.

I do have older version of WP on 3 blogs. And fusse, I STRONGLY recommend that you NOT upgrade to 3.1 at all – read all the problems. They need a new version before people should upgrade.

This has been happening about once a week at https://www.thealexandrian.net. And it only started happening when I upgraded WordPress to the latest version.

It’s clearly a problem with WordPress.

Happened again today, but only on 1 blog – so it took 2 weeks. It can’t be a plug-in, to change internal admin pages like Discussion! (changes permission to post w/out approval, and says admin must approve – neither of which I have EVER checked.)

This time it happened soon after someone left a comment. I changed permissions to fix, and also edited ALL my posts again to allow comments again. Then tried to answer his comment. I got some comments.php errors – blank pages, had to keep resending and refreshing.

I don’t understand php at all, so I don’t know if that’s it, but maybe? It’s 8.4. NO WAY I’m going to upgrade to 3.1 until they fix it for Windows users. Here’s the site: https://thecartoons.net/

Ping.

Happened again. At this point I wish there was a way I could reverse time and go back to the old version of WordPress that didn’t periodically sabotage my website.

We may have a similar issue in WP 3.1 (multisite subdomain). If we do, that means I’ll be digging around in the WP source code to see what I can see.