Posted 2 years ago #
I recently exported my wordpress blog into my own domain blog, and it seems like something has happened to some of my comments in the process.
All of them have been imported correctly, however, on some posts, it says "NO COMMENTS" when in fact,if you click to comment you will see that there are comments. Is there a way to fix this?
Posted 2 years ago #
anyone?
On the "missing comment" posts, have comments been closed? If so, the problem could be within your theme.
Posted 2 years ago #
no, they haven't. When you click on the individual post, you can see the comments and also comment on them still.
However, on the main page where you can see my last 5 posts or whatever, it says "no comments" on it.
ALSO--- does anyone know how to change the section where it says "NO COMMENTS" if no one has commented on it to something different...it makes it look like I don't allow comments, even though that's not the case.
Part 2 first:
Look for comments_popup_link() in your template file(s) (start with index.php). The details are all on http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/comments_popup_link but, basically, the first field in that comma-delimited list is the message used when you don't have any comment yet. I tend to use something like:
<?php if('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?><?php comments_popup_link('Comment on '.$post->post_title, '1 Comment on '.$post->post_title, '% Comments on '.$post->post_title,'postcomment','Comments are off for '.$post->post_title); ?><?php endif;?>
(The if statement actually stops the last message from ever being seen)
With regard to your older posts problem, so you have a link to one of these posts?
Posted 2 years ago #
Thanks so much for the quick reply. For part 2, I fixed the problem by just switching themes. For my original question, here is a post showing an example of what I am talking about:
http://www.the-life-of-lisa.com/2009/06/26/favorite-place-of-the-week-kensington-palace-and-gardens/
If you look at the top under the title, it says "0 comments" however, when you scroll down, you will see that there are really 5.
Doesn't make sense to me.
Have a look in single.php. Does it use comments_number()?
Posted 2 years ago #
About 1 hr ago I switched to the thesis theme (the problem still persists) abut I don't see the single.php in the editor.
{so sorry to be such a pain..thank you for trying to help me :)}
If the problem persists after a change in theme, then it's obviously not the template files. There's a field in the wp_posts table that stores the number of comments listed against each post. WP uses this field to generate the displayed comment totals rather than recounting the comments every time (the latter would result in poorer performance). My guess is that this field wasn't updated correctly when you did the import. So, as I see it, you have 2 options:
1. Remove all references to comment_number() in the theme so that the "problem" isn't so obvious.
2. Manually fix the faulty comment totals in the database on a post-by-post basis.
Option 2 wouldn't be difficult if you used PhpMyAdmin (although I always recommend doing a backup before you edit anything in the database) - but it would be slow and pretty tedious.
Sorry I can't offer you anything more positive.
Posted 2 years ago #
Thank you so much for all of your help. I have no idea how to fix it the correct way, but I did find that if I go in and edit a comment (I just pressed the backspace bar at the end of each comment and re-saved it) and after I edited them, it the post corrected the comment count. ODD.
But thank you so much!
Posted 2 years ago #
Just wondering whether anyone has found another solution for this. I have a client with 1540 comments, that are in the system after a Blogger import - but they are not showing in the blog under the posts. Switching themes and deactivating all plugins does not seem to solve the problem.
Gosh I hope we don't have to go into all comments, edit them and save in order to view how many comments under each post. Yikes, that would be a large undertaking.
:)
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