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Hahah, I think I’m going to leave that one closed, otherwise people will think it’s some randomly unpopular article, and that’ll drive me nuts. ??

I’d like to thank you in my next entry — credit to alism? Any page you want me to link to or anything?

Seriously, thanks again! Hopefully someone else who has this problem will see this message in the future!

Oh my GOD!

It worked, it worked!

Thank you SO much — I’ve bee sweating over this since Friday night!

Oooh, thank you!

But on which php should I be adding this? ??

Sorry about that.

I have checked single.php and that code is within it.

I have a feeling the code you posted is missing somewhere on another critical php file. Perhaps one that was edited to make the newly-paged comment organization look right. Would you or anyone have an idea which file I should be looking for to see that?

No problem, thank you for trying!

I am also curious if there is a way for me to add a comment to one of these new entries manually? I wonder if the problem with (at least temporarily) self-correct if I can somehow stick a comment on one of those entries through the backend.

Does anyone know of any issue that would cause posts that have no comments to not include the option to add a new comment?

It would seem that you are correct. The comments functionality seems fine, but for whatever reason, something in the coding is not calling for a comments box on posts that have zero comments. I’m not sure what exactly, though. ??

Here is my comments.php file:

<?php // Do not delete these lines
if (!empty($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) && 'comments.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']))
	die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!');
if ( post_password_required() ) {
	echo '<p class="nocomments">This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments.</p>';
	return;
}
		/* This variable is for alternating comment background */
		$oddcomment = 'alt';
?>

<!-- You can start editing here. -->
	<div align="center"><?php if ($comments) : ?><a name="comments"></a><BR /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px">Discussion Thread: <?php comments_number('no comments', '1 comment', '% comments' );?></div></span> <hr>
<div style="text-align:center";>
<?php paginate_comments_links(); ?>
</div>
	<?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>

<?php wp_list_comments('type=comment&callback=mytheme_comment'); ?>

<div style="text-align:center";>
<?php paginate_comments_links(); ?>
</div>
<?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
	<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) :
		// If comments are open, but there are no comments.
	else : // comments are closed
	endif;
endif;
?>

<h3 id="respond">Add A New Comment!</h3>

<?php if ( get_option('comment_registration') && !$user_ID ) : ?>

<p>You must be <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php the_permalink(); ?>">logged in</a> to post a comment.</p>

<?php else : ?>

<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">

<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>

<p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a> [<a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="Log out of this account">Logout</a>]</p>

<?php else : ?>

<!--<p><a href="https://x-entertainment.com/wordpress/wp-register.php" title="Register">Click Here To Register &raquo;</a></p>-->

<p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="22" tabindex="1" />

<label for="author"><small>Name <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label></p>

<p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="22" tabindex="2" />

<label for="email"><small>Mail (will not be published) <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label></p>

<p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="22" tabindex="3" />

<label for="url"><small>Website</small></label></p>

<?php endif; ?>

<!--<p><small><strong>XHTML:</strong> You can use these tags: <?php echo allowed_tags(); ?></small></p>-->

<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="58%" rows="8" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>

<p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" />

<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />

</p>

<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>

</form>

<?php endif; // If registration required and not logged in ?>

<?php endif; // if you delete this the sky will fall on your head ?>

If it’s any help, I am certain that the problem arose as a result of the tinkering my coding helper made yesterday — which was using the standard WP comments “paging” function, for the most part. While I understand that paging comments only takes a click, I wonder if he accidentally washed away something while editing how those pages would be organized on the site.

Here you go! Hope these backticks work, I’m a first timer…

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

		<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

			<div class="entry">

				<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;</p>'); ?>

				<?php link_pages('<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', '</p>', 'number'); ?>

			</div>

		</div>

	  <?php endwhile; endif; ?>

	<?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '<p>', '</p>'); ?>

	</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Sure, let me get that out now and figure out backticks — thank you so much for your help!

I’m very sorry about the repeated bumping — I’m just going a little batty right now as the blog is a semi-business and the loss of a comments field is a real nuisance. (Though I know my issues are no more important than the next — I just didn’t want anyone to assume I got my answer since the post was all the way down the page.)

And yes, both of those are ticked. ??

Still looking for an answer. ??

Bump.

Gonna be a long weekend. ??