http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: Can't Approve Comments! Please Help! en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:44:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258093#post-1125726 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:23:27 +0000 bilalsarwari 1125726@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>thank you hassan its work for me </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258093#post-1120243 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:09:04 +0000 reybeez 1120243@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I just started getting this after my upgrade to 2.8. M.Hasaan's answer works though. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258093#post-1102325 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:44:58 +0000 M.Hassaan 1102325@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Guys, I have a fix, but its not a permanent one.<br /> Edit the comment in question, then select "Approved" from the status menu.. and its approved&gt; Obviously its not a final solution, but its a temporary one! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258093#post-1098050 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:12:25 +0000 rupakg 1098050@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi All,<br /> I had the exact same problem. It seems that any plugin that is related to email can cause this issue. In my case, it was the "ShiftThis.net | Swift SMTP 1.0 Send email via SMTP (Compatible with GMAIL) By Marcus Vanstone" plugin. As soon as I deactivated the plugin, my comments started to get approved and I also started to receive emails when comments were posted.</p> <p>Hope it helps someone. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258093#post-1082636 Mon, 25 May 2009 02:33:15 +0000 gnorb 1082636@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Using CentOS, but checked PHP version. It was still set to 4. Thanks! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258093#post-1082423 Sun, 24 May 2009 21:09:54 +0000 smuffle89 1082423@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>it looks as if matthewc gave a valid answer :/ </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258093#post-1082404 Sun, 24 May 2009 20:47:25 +0000 gnorb 1082404@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I'll go ahead and add my voice to this. Same issues as above (no plugin involved, though). Can't approve comments. Thoughts? Anyone? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258093#post-1063661 Sun, 03 May 2009 19:38:16 +0000 williams94086 1063661@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I'm experiencing the same issue. Yesterday, all was fine.</p> <p>Today, when I receive a pending comment, I do not receive an email notification. My email account is working and I've rec'd other emails, just none that I normally receive when comments are left on my blog.</p> <p>Also, pending comments cannot be approved. When I click on 'approve' for a given comment, the status notes that it's approved. However, when the page is refreshed, it becomes pending once again. If I use the checkbox next to the pending comment and try a bulk action to approve, it takes me to a blank page. Comment remains pending.</p> <p>I'm using v.2.7.1. I am uncertain of which PHP version I am using (how do I know?) but my hosting provider appears to use 5.2.9, so I assume this is ok.</p> <p>Unfortunately, I'm traveling due to a family emergency and not able to research this fully. If there are any additional ideas, I would appreciate hearing them.</p> <p>Site in question: <a href="http://www.eatingoutloud.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.eatingoutloud.com</a></p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>Allen </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258093#post-1058740 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:23:25 +0000 Jennifer Martin 1058740@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi - </p> <p>I'm having a similar problem - I can't approve comments - I'm selecting the comment, choosing approve and hitting apply but they still do not appear on my website - am I doing something wrong? I'm not the hottest person on word press and I'd really appreciate some help,</p> <p>Many thanks in advance</p> <p>Jen </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258093#post-1057499 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:13:21 +0000 matthewc 1057499@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I came across the problem and eventually (after a great deal of poking around) found the error was being caused by the debian package for wordpress, in combination with php4. Debian uses a separately packaged copy of phpmailer, which is called if you have your wordpress set to email you when new comments are posted. The current version of phpmailer (2.1-1) in debian is no longer php4-compatible. Unfortunately without hard-coding extra error output, this happens totally silently, as the phpmailer require_once gives a parse error.</p> <p>Basically there are two workarounds - either switch to using php5 (probably best if you can - php4's dead, baby, php4's dead), or replace the debian symlinked class-phpmailer.php and class-smtp.php files with ones from a vanilla wordpress package.</p> <p>If you're not using debian and php4, then I have no idea.</p> <p>Matthew </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258093#post-1040766 Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:18:40 +0000 internetbusinesspath 1040766@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I am having the same problem and I have checked my error_log file to find any problems with no luck as well.</p> <p>At the moment the comments still come in, but when I try to bulk approve these comments, it takes me to a blank page. Or when I do press approve below each individual comment it shows it's approved dynamically, but when I refresh the screen the comment is still in pending. </p> <p>I have previously installed DISQUS and then uninstalled. This is when the problems started to occur. Any ideas or help would be appreciated.</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258093#post-1032823 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:41:04 +0000 greg2008 1032823@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Do you have any error.log files in your wordpress directory? Probably the main folder, but check the wrp-admin folder too. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258093#post-1032761 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:48:12 +0000 xstatic 1032761@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>When I try to appove pending comments from the edit-comments.php page, it changes the link from Approve to Unapprove as expected, but the comments do not appear in the article. Also, if I check the checkboxes and try to approve them in BULK it goes to a blank page.</p> <p>When I go back to the list of pending comments, all of the comments I previously approved are pending again.</p> <p>I upgraded to 2.7.1. via the automatic-wordpress-upgrade plug-in but this didn't fix the issue.</p> <p>Anybody have any ideas? </p>