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1. cubehouse
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   This has had me scratching my head for the last day or so.

   On my website, I have a custom post type (a location) and I wanted to add user reviews to these posts.

   So, I thought I'd simply enable comments by adding "comments" into the array of enabled features for my custom post type.
   But, only new posts I create after enabling comments have the comments enabled.
   I've gone into some of the old posts, manually ticked the "comments enabled" boxes, but they still don't show.
   I even modified the template briefly to show the comment box anyway, but when submitting, WordPress gives me a big "comments are not enabled" message.
   I've gone into the postmeta tables and had a look at the data, the comment_status field is clearly set to "open".

   Anyone got any idea why this is happening?

2. cubehouse
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Ok,
   Sorry to bump/reply to my own topic.

   I've gone into quick-edit and manually adjusted the publish date to today for my old posts - and now the comments work.

   Is this what WordPress is meant to be doing? It seems very odd.

3. cubehouse
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Scrap all that - it only makes the comment box appear, then it tells me that comments are closed upon actually submitting.

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