cbnyc

Thank you, @macmanx, what a clarifying and useful answer!

I’ve followed all of your advice.

I think you’ve just promoted my knowledge from WordPress Level 1 to WordPress Level 2!

Thank you @t-p for your insight and advice.

And thank you @gappiah, that is super-helpful and clarifying!

So, George, I understand your answer and it seems to solve my confusion.

Of course, this does raise a couple of followup questions for a newbie such as myself:

What is a spam registration? Is there some additional form of spam that will follow from this, other than this email address that’s been added to my dashboard?

Is there any harm in it and any action I should take, or are they harmless and to be ignored?

If it’s spam, why wasn’t it blocked by the Akismet Anti-Spam plugin? Is there some other better spam plugin I should buy that would be more effective?

I’m not using Jetpack.

Here are all my active plugins: Akismet Anti-Spam, All In One SEO Pack, CSS Hero, Custom Twitter Feeds Pro Personal, Site Kit by Google, WPForms Lite

I find this confusing that this may have nothing to do with WordPress itself because it’s shown in my WordPress dashboard under “Users” which includes a link on the top right of the page called “Descriptions of Roles and Capabilities” that is written by WordPress (see my original post above).

Here is a screenshot of what I’m describing: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gawv7gbzygdnawi/Screenshot%202020-01-26%2013.14.27.png?dl=0

I very honestly don’t know the answer to those questions, or where to look to find the answer to those questions.

If it’s any help, I am using the WordPress “Twenty Seventeen” theme, and not very many plug-ins. Possible culprits could be the WPForms Lite plugin, or the Custom Twitter Feeds Pro Personal plug-in.

I’ve looked through the settings on WordPress and these two plugins and don’t see anything that I can tie to a subscription.

Can I ask you, is a “subscription” a standard WordPress feature? If so, where is it found?

I believe so. So then, what does that mean? WordPress says it means they “can only manage their profile.” But your comment would seem to suggest that there is something they are going to receive: a “subscription” to comments, posts, etc. What does that mean exactly? The subscription goes where? They get an email every time there is a new post, comment, etc.? Sorry if this is such a basic question, but it was not clear to me from the WordPress documentation.

@macmanx,

Thank you so much for all of your patient advice.

Turning off a plugin called “Parler” solved the problem and brought the comment feature back.

I’ll let them know.

Interesting… even when “allow comments” is checked on individual posts, still no comment field displays…

No, tried, Twenty Nineteen and Twenty Ten, still no display of comments.

@ikaring, thank you, fantastic, problem solved!

That was very generous of you, I appreciate it.

I never would have been able to figure that out myself.

@jdembowski, thank you.

Thank you, @joyously

I tried moving it into a shortcode block (which is definitely a correction, I didn’t even know what one was before you mentioned it and I looked it up), but it still displays the same.

I just applied to the Facebook WPForms user group, hopefully they will accept me and help out.

The theme is just a stock WordPress theme, so no special support there.

As to the CSS, I really don’t analyze or edit code in WordPress. If it doesn’t format correctly on its own I’m out of luck.

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by cbnyc.

Thank you very much, @jaycbrf, that explains the issue.

A bit frustrating that 2nd level support at Apple had no idea, support at MAMP, no idea. MAMP should actually have this posted on their website and/or have sent out alerts to users, rather than giving the advice to reinstall, whereby I lost my database.