Hello there.
What have you done before it happened?
Maybe they are deactivated in database. If you want to activate them you must do in your database:
UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = REPLACE (comment_status, 'closed', 'open') WHERE post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post';
It will open closed comments in posts.
P.S.: Make a DB backup before touching it!!!! 🙂
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ranney
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I did the upgrade at some point but thought it was working after that
How do I do a DB backup?
Two easy ways
1. Go to your PHPMyAdmin and export the database.
2. Use WP-DB-Backup plugin 🙂
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ranney
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is that under theme options?
Nopes. PHPMyAdmin must be in your server (or any way to make a database backup, don’t know where it is in cPanel).
WP-DB-Backup plugin can be installed in Plugins in your WP admin. And you can make a backup from Tools -> DB Backup.
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ranney
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Now where do I find the post to activate comments
It must be done in your database. If you have not access to it to execute the SQL code in #2, you must ask your site administrator to do it.
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ranney
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I am the administrator but not sure where to access the data base is that through c-panel?
I had this very same problem. I solved it by upgrading to Atahualpa 3.4.4, the most recent version.
http://wordpress.bytesforall.com/?p=81
The instructions for upgrading in the last post in this thread, http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=3378 , are pretty straightforward. Since all of the Atahualpa settings are stored in the database, they should automatically carry over to the new version.
I was using 3.2, because I’d had issues with 3.3.2. So far, 3.4.4 seems to work okay for me, but I haven’t had time to really discover any problems if they do exist.
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ranney
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I have a fair amount of photos would that have anything to do with the problem?
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ranney
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Won’t the error fransfer into the upgrade? The backup file has ther error in it.
Any updates on this? I’m having the same issue. I upgraded to 2.9, then tried out the option to have comments close after a certain number of days passed. After I removed the option I noticed that none of my posts, even new ones, would allow comments, and that in browsers other than FF a number of comments appeared that didn’t relate to a given post. I tried to restore to a backup and that did not resolve the issue.
ETA: All my comments already say “open” in the database, and other themes are working fine. This appears to be a theme issue.
