lastchip

Yes; Yes; YES!!!

Just noticed an update to the theme is available and now the comments work.

So to recap, in my case, the WordPress update needed a theme update to resolve whatever was causing the problem.

When you stop and think about it; not at all unreasonable.

Thanks again for putting me on the right track.

OK – update;

certainly, if I revert to the default theme, it works just fine.

I’ve tried it with my existing plugins and they work fine too.

Unfortunately, I love the theme I’m using, so for the moment, I’ll have to live with the problem.

Perhaps the theme developer will come up with a fix in due course.

In the meantime, it may be a good opportunity to experiment, with the default theme, to see how I can blend it into my existing site. I can do this on my spare development server.

Although I have an intermediate knowledge of html, my php knowledge is zero, so it’ll be a challenge.

Thanks for your guidance.

I don’t want to high-jack this thread, but I have a similar problem and it seems from searching the site, many others do too.

The blog shows a comment is available, I have approved it, but when clicking on it, it doesn’t work and says “NO COMMENTS YET”. What could be the problem please?

Here is a link for you to see what I mean:

https://www.gdphotographer.co.uk/blog/

Notice the current post at the top has a comment. Try clicking on it to see the result.

Any guidance would be gratefully received.

Sorry, wrong thread.

Anyone?

OK, I’ve just done a complete reinstall, with a clean database, with exactly the same result.

Completely locked out of WordPress; what on earth can it be?

I’d be most grateful for any help on this please.

A DNS entry would (I think) only be applicable if you are running a DNS server.

It’s easier to put an entry in your “hosts” file; which would look something like this:

[local server address] [domain address] for example,

192.168.0.1 https://www.yoursite.com

It has the effect of pointing your local machine to your local server.

You’ll probably already find in the hosts file, a local address like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost

DO NOT remove it.

Chis_K, you are the bees knees.

A local host entry solved it.

Thanks once again for your very valuable help.

Wow! I don’t believe it!!

Thank you both so much.

Such a simple change and yet I couldn’t for the life of me work out what was wrong.

If I may, one further question related to this.

I have changed both the WordPress address and the Blog address and it now appears fine on the web, but, I can now no longer access the files via localhost. (the server and my computers are on the same internal network, but the server is in a DMZ). I’ve overcome this, by logging on via a public proxy server to gain access and it works fine, but it is not an ideal solution.

Is there a way of maintaining local access to the files please?

And by the way, I owe you both a couple of pints!