Must be logged in to comment?

Check you settings: Options > General and Options > Discussion.

I’ve found this problem too – only with a slight twist.

Basically, at the bottom of the single post the statement:
“You must be logged in to post a comment” sits with “logged in” being a live URL.

In my instance I upgraded from 1.5.1 to 2.0.3 (the upgrade seemed to go smoothly – no errors at all).

However the “logged in” URL redirects back to the same post (i.e. no login is allowed – and hence no post).

I’ve since allowed people to post without providing a name and email (via Options) but the same behaviour is in evidence.

Any ideas?

All the best,
Tom

I have the opposite problem – or at least my spammers do.

With “must be logged in to comment” checked in the General Options I cannot comment without logging in, but if I create an account and log in it works fine. So far so good. But spammers seem to have found a way of getting past this and I keep getting comments submitted for moderation even though there are no extra user accounts showing up either in WP Users or in the database.

Has anyone else seen this and is there a fix for it?

alQpr – that’s trackback spam (search forums for more info).

The typical solution is to install either the akismet or the spam karma 2 plugin. Both easily found and easy to work with.

Either one of those couple with the Bad Behavior plugin makes a very potent cure.