sierragirl1

Thank you all for your help.

Much for me to think about as far as keeping my old theme.

For now I am changing themes to a different one that is not broken ??

All the best!

I did have questions about that…

How do you fix a broken theme?

How does a theme get broken in the first place?

And is it really worth fixing a broken theme to begin with?

Thanks for all your help!

Yes, all plugins have been deactivated and the numbers were still not correct. So it is not a plug-in issue.

I did switch to Twenty Ten and the comment number was correct. So it is a theme issue.

I then reactivated my other theme and the comments are messed up again…still no plug-ins activated.

So now I have deleted my theme and was attempting to reinstall, but I ran into a server error and wp would not let me upload my theme’s zip file.

So I am going to contact my server and see what happened and then try again.

Is there anything else I should be doing?
Or is it worth trying to use this other theme that is messed up?

Thanks for your help!

Ok so after resetting all the options I now have even more comments than I had before (at least numbers wise). In actuality I only have 26 comments on my blog yet going by the numbers that are listed now I have hundreds.

How does a theme break?
Just a few weeks ago I was able to get my site W3 Validated…
Of course then I added videos and a paypal button and got rid of some spam and now it is all messed up.

Is there any way to fix all this or is it just time to get a new theme?

What if I uninstalled my theme and then reinstalled it fresh? Would that help?

Thanks!

The only changes I have made on my original theme was by using the options that the theme came with. I have never changed any of the code.

So then by default I should reset everything to the way it was when I first installed it?

Or were you talking about if I had changed the coding itself somewhere?

Thanks for your help!!

OK I have found the culprit ??

I activated the twenty ten theme and the comments were corrected.
I did not rename my other theme since it was already named differently than the others. Plus I could not see how to do that. ??

Now is there anything you suggest for getting my other theme back in place?

Is there a file or code I need to fix?

thanks!!

Thanks for replying! ??

I just went through and permanently deleted everything in both my spam folder and my trash and I still have the same comment numbers on my blog.

When I checked my blog I just refreshed the page to see if anything had changed and it had not.

What else can I do?

Thanks.