Comments get attached to post attachment

Are you using a plugin to add attachments?

Hi Ipstenu,

thanks for your reply.

No, I just upload them inside a post and they automatically get attached to that post, then I use the get_children function to get the attachments for the specific post.

/olaf

At a guess, it’s the get_children function, somehow overriding the page’s normal comment functionality.

Can you share the code you used to implement get_children?

sorry about the late reply, here are the two functions I have tried, both show a list of the attachments.
The first one using get_children:

$args = array(
  'post_type' => 'attachment',
  'numberposts' => -1,
  'post_status' => 'inherit',
  'post_parent' => get_the_ID(), // any parent
);
$attachments = get_children($args);
if ($attachments) {
  echo "<ul>\n";
  foreach ($attachments as $post) {
    setup_postdata($post);
    echo '<li><a href="' . wp_get_attachment_url($post->ID) . '">'. get_the_title().'</a></li>'."\n";
  }

and the second one using get_posts:

$args = array(
  'post_type' => 'attachment',
  'numberposts' => -1,
  'post_status' => 'inherit',
  'post_parent' => get_the_ID(), // any parent
);
$attachments = get_posts($args);
if ($attachments) {
  echo "<ul>\n";
  foreach ($attachments as $post) {
    setup_postdata($post);
    echo '<li><a href="' . wp_get_attachment_url($post->ID) . '">'. get_the_title().'</a></li>'."\n";
  }

Both the get_children and the get_posts above are pretty much like the ones on the get_childrens function page and the get_posts function page on how to get attachments, so it should not be here that the problem occurs.

/olaf

Okay. So you’re using children to auto-generate a list of attachments, versus manually attaching them to your posts. Repeating to clear my own head ??

All I can find related to this is this: https://digwp.com/2009/08/awesome-image-attachment-recipes-for-wordpress/

Which just explains how one dynamically generates such things, but seems to be image specific.

I figured out a way that works, now, while using the method below, I have my list of attachments for the post and am still able to post a comment to the post and not the attachment.

Here is the database query code:

global $wpdb;
$attachment_ids = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_parent = '$post->ID' AND post_status = 'inherit' AND post_type='attachment' ORDER BY post_date DESC"); 

foreach($attachment_ids as $aid) {
  echo '<li><a href="' . wp_get_attachment_url($aid->ID) . '">'. get_the_title($aid->ID) .'</a></li>'."\n";
}

My guess is that using the other database queries somehow changed the post id number which is passed when submitting a comment, thereby changing the location of the comment, even though it would still show up in the post, it was attached to the posts first attachment.

Anyways, I hope this helps somebody else in the future.

Thanks for all your help Ipstenu.

/olaf