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Rev. Voodoo
Volunteer Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

This is just a minor annoyance more than anything, but figured I'd ask if anyone could help.

Viewing my Dashboard, the recent comments area, none of my comments have a name.

For instance they just look like:
From on Mix of the Moment-Dr. Dre 1986 Mixtape! # [Pending]

And the source code looks like:
From <cite class="comment-author"><a href='http://www.rvoodoo.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'></a></cite> on <a href='http://www.rvoodoo.com/empire/wp-admin/post.php?post=979&action=edit'>Mix of the Moment-Dr. Dre 1986 Mixtape!</a> <a class="comment-link" href="http://www.rvoodoo.com/2010/05/mix-of-the-moment-dr-dre-1986-mixtape/comment-page-1/#comment-313">#</a> <span class="approve">[Pending]</span>

The name shows up fine on the actual comment, just not here

It's not theme or plugin related, I've gone through that..... Any ideas?
esmi
Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

Re-upload wp-includes?
Push the memory up a bit?
Check & repair the db?
Rev. Voodoo
Volunteer Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

I can try wp-includes, but the problem started at 3.0 and persisted with 3.0.1, which did replace that directory

I have my memory waaaay up ridiculously high

DB has been repaired and optimized monthly, but I'll do that again now for fun!!

Thanks for the suggestions!
esmi
Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

Anything useful in your error logs?
Rev. Voodoo
Volunteer Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

No luck with repairing DB

error logs are completely empty
esmi
Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

I wonder if it's a PHP version issue? What version of PHP are you running? I'm not seeing any problems on a local install running 5.3.0 or quirm.net running 5.2.13
Rev. Voodoo
Volunteer Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

I'm on 5.2.8 I don't think that's changed since I was on 2.9.2 WP and the From worked
esmi
Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

Going to see if I can get some more eyes on this...
mrmist
Forum Janitor
Posted 1 year ago #

Is the information actually there in the database for the comment names? Is it comments by a specific author?
James
Happiness Engineer
Posted 1 year ago #

Can you make a fresh WP 3.0.1 installation in a subdirectory and see if that has the same problem?
Mark / t31os
Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

Any plugins installed that could possibly be running a filter on get_comment_author_link or get_comment_author?
Rev. Voodoo
Volunteer Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

Let's see, it's all comments.... even my own

I think the names would be in the database properly, as the names do show up on the actual comments just fine, all properly linked and everything. Just not on the dash widget

I just went into my other blog and posted a comment, the name appears just fine there. It's a subdirectory under my main site

I don't think its plugins as I tested before with all plugins deactivated. Let me try agaain resetting everything
Rev. Voodoo
Volunteer Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

I really thought it could be theme related...as I use a lot of custom cb comment stuff, but alas, its definitely not. Tried the 3.0.1 version of twentyten theme with no luck

Ah-hah! After a plugin reset, it is a plugin....sorry guys, I shoulda been more thorough!

RPX was the culprit
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rpx/

Which is fine, it doesn't work in IE, and was killing my simple:press forum sometimes.... I'm better off without I guess

Note to self....reset plugins
Mark / t31os
Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #
I checked the plugin above and it does run a filter on get_comment_author with the following right at the start of the callback function..
```
function rpx_get_comment_author_filter($a) {

  if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'wp-admin')) {
    return;
  }

...
```
It's no wonder the comments show up blank in the admin, the filter is returning nothing when it's the admin (the filter does get run admin side to), silly plugin author... :)

He should simply return the data...
```
function rpx_get_comment_author_filter($a) {

  if ( is_admin() ) {
    return $a;
  }

..
```
:)
Rev. Voodoo
Volunteer Moderator
Posted 1 year ago #

thanks for that! Now that I've got the plugin running again..... I'll probably have to keep updating that code, since the author doesn't seem to support to well

At least now people can sign into my site helf the time! ;)
(since it no worky in IE)

The code snippet is much appreciated!