Comments won’t appear; using 2.6.3; no widgets; mysterious! Help!

Oh, I forgot to mention:

In each post itself, the “Allow comments” customization box is checked.

In the Dashboard, the global “Allow people to post comments on the article” box is definitely checked.

As an experiment, I unchecked them both, saved, then rechecked each box to allow comments, and saved again, thinking this might clear up some old cache or something.

But no change. Still no comments appear.

Hmmmmmmmmm!

Ooops, when I said “widgets” above, I meant “plugins”: i.e. there are absolutely no plugins of any kind, so nothing can be conflicting with anything else.

I just quadruple-checked every single setting, in every part of the Dashboard, especially those in the “Discussion” panel, and not a single setting is set to block or prevent comments from being posted. Yet that it was is seemingly happening.

All these boxes are checked “Yes”:

Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)
Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)
Allow people to post comments on the article

Is there some hidden “cache” or something like that that is causing the problem? I’m absolutely at my wit’s end over this — I can’t figure out what more to do.

ANY help would be appreciated.

I’ve just spent 12 hours trying to solve this on my own, to no avail.

Doesn’t anybody have even the slightest suggestion? If you don’t know the answer, where should I start in my search? What would YOU do in my situation? (I.e. no comments can appear on your blog.)

OK, I just did the following experiment:

Installed the “Default” theme.
Change from my existing theme to Default; activated it.
Tried to make a comment on a post using the Default theme.

Result: no change! The comment still did not appear.

So whatever the problem is, it has nothing to do with the theme, since it happened the same under both themes.

Here is a weird new piece of information:

Sometimes (but not always) when I try to make a test comment on a post, to see if comments are still not working, even if the comment does not appear on the post, I get the following notification email from WordPress:

A new comment on the post # “” is waiting for your approval

Author : (IP: , )
E-mail :
URL :
Whois : https://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=
Comment:

Approve it: …
Delete it:…
Spam it:..
Currently 0 comments are waiting for approval. Please visit the moderation panel:
…

When it says “Author : (IP: , )”, that’s exactly what it says — an absent IP. Also, as you can see, it simultaneously tells me that I need to approve of a comment (even though I don’t have “moderate comments” turned on) and than there are no comments awaiting moderation.

What’s also odd is “A new comment on the post # ” exactly like that — no post # is given.

Is this a clue? Is there some miscommunication about the post numbers? I have my permalinks set to the default — i.e. “…blog/?p=80” — and they’ve always been that way.

I’ve GOT to get this fixed today!

Here is a weird new piece of information:

Sometimes (but not always) when I try to make a test comment on a post, to see if comments are still not working, even if the comment does not appear on the post, I get the following notification email from WordPress:

A new comment on the post # “” is waiting for your approval

Author : (IP: , )
E-mail :
URL :
Whois : https://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=
Comment:

Approve it: …
Delete it:…
Spam it:..
Currently 0 comments are waiting for approval. Please visit the moderation panel:
…

When it says “Author : (IP: , )”, that’s exactly what it says — an absent IP. Also, as you can see, it simultaneously tells me that I need to approve of a comment (even though I don’t have “moderate comments” turned on) and than there are no comments awaiting moderation.

What’s also odd is “A new comment on the post # ” exactly like that — no post # is given.

Is this a clue? Is there some miscommunication about the post numbers? I have my permalinks set to the default — i.e. “…blog/?p=80” — and they’ve always been that way.

I’ve GOT to get this fixed today!

Same problem here… solution :

. Go into your phpmyadmin
. find your table *_comments
. You will see mySQL error 145
. go in SQL and type

repair table *_comments

that’s it!

* = prefix .. normally wp_comments

jeanlucs:

You are a genius!

I grovel in gratitude at your feet, weeping tears of joy.

I followed your instructions (with some difficulty, due to my newbie-ness), and…it worked!

The comments now appear!

I will eventually mark this question as “resolved,” but let me give it a few hours to make sure the system keeps running consistently.

THANK YOU!!!!!!

My pleasure ?? I’m glad to see that’s worked for you!

I have this same problem, and by looking at myphpadmin, I’m pretty sure the problem is with my table.

However, this fix didn’t work for me. My error was that there “More than one INDEX key was created for column comment_approved”

Is there some way to Re-do my wp_comments table? Maybe to start from scratch?

Just like the OP I have a fresh and shiny install of 2.6.3, and know that the problem is not in my discussion settings. ??

Thank you, ??

(I’d be happy to move this elsewhere, but this problem is identical to mine, so I thought it might be beneficial to see it in this thread.)

I’m sorry but can someone show me where I can find “phpmyadmin”? I’m also having problems with my comments.

this worked for me: Thanks to Pavlos:

1) You must have access to use SQL commands on your database, like for example with phpMyAdmin.
2) Select your WP database and click on the SQL tab.
3) Paste and run the following SQL command.

UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = ‘open’, ping_status = ‘open’ WHERE comment_status = ‘closed’;

Brilliant! That worked for me. THANK YOU!!!

I tried both options from gymgangsta and jeanlucs, but still the comments are not working. I still had the problem exactly as described above :

A new comment on the post # “” is waiting for your approval

Author : (IP: , )
E-mail :
URL :
Whois : https://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=
Comment:

Approve it: https://drarief.com/wp-admin/comment.php?action=mac&c=11448
Delete it: https://drarief.com/wp-admin/comment.php?action=cdc&c=11448
Spam it: https://drarief.com/wp-admin/comment.php?action=cdc&dt=spam&c=11448
Currently 0 comments are waiting for approval. Please visit the moderation panel:
https://drarief.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?comment_status=moderated

Can any one else please suggest me what to do ? I’m getting desperate to seek for help here…

My blog address is , I even tried to upgrade my blog to 2.8.1, upgrade every single plugins, enable and disable them, still no luck…