Title: Comments in 1.3-alpha3
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comments in 1.3-alpha3

 *  [David G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/midrangeman/)
 * (@midrangeman)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/)
 * I just resynced my WP sandbox to the 1.3-alpha3 level and found that comments
   are no longer being displayed.
    The comments are there … I can edit them using
   the dashboard … bu thtye are not displayed when the main index or individual 
   pages are displayed.

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 *  [ysidoro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ysidoro/)
 * (@ysidoro)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89346)
 * Yes! I have just upgraded from cvs to 1.3-alpha-3 and all my posts says comments(
   0) , but comments are there throught admin pages.
 *  [tedfox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tedfox/)
 * (@tedfox)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89348)
 * I upgraded… no such problems…
    maybe u want to check the coding of index.php??
   Maybe they changed the functions.. (i”ve been upgrading with every alternate 
   nightly… so… can’t really point out the differences)
 *  [Ryan Boren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryan/)
 * (@ryan)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89349)
 * Try replacing this:
    `<?php include(ABSPATH . 'wp-comments.php'); ?>` with this:`
   <?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?>`
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89356)
 * Ryan, I do have that in my index file. I also saved the original beta index and
   wp-comments files and tested with them -but no go. I’ll keep hacking away at 
   this, but if you or anyone else has another idea or two they won’t go unheeded
   while I press on 😉
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89357)
 * Would other 1.3 beta users test something for me (which may be totally unrelated)?
   Under Options|Discussion are “Allow link notifications…” and “Allow people to
   post comments…” showing a check mark on update of options?
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89358)
 * I think if you de-select them you will not be able to “get them back” without
   doing it manually. In any event, I submitted a bug report with a klunky fix that
   worked for me.
 *  Thread Starter [David G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/midrangeman/)
 * (@midrangeman)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89367)
 * Ryan:
    I assume the modification you are suggesting is to index.php … which already
   has the “<?php comments_template();” statement. david
 *  [bronski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bronski/)
 * (@bronski)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89369)
 * Beel, both default_values are set to open in my nightly 9/7, but nevertheless
   all new postings have comments and pingback set to closed.
 *  [indieb0i](https://wordpress.org/support/users/indieb0i/)
 * (@indieb0i)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89374)
 * Beel, thanks for the SQL command above. I almost freaked out when all of my comments
   disappeared, but that did the trick.
    As per your other question, after updating
   the Discussion option page, I lose the checks on those two options no matter 
   what I do. The first one (“Attempt to notify…”), however, can be set and unset.
 *  [bronski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bronski/)
 * (@bronski)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89377)
 * My guess is that the reason for all my posts showing up with pings and comments
   closed is a change to xmlrpc.php because when I use the web-interface I can change
   those back to open, but with desktop applications like ecto that use xmlrpc it
   doesn’t work. I don’t remember exactly when it started but I guess it was 8/26
   or smth.
 *  [ysidoro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ysidoro/)
 * (@ysidoro)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89389)
 * I have modified template as rboren said.
    I have modified option table 56-57 
   to “open” as Beel said. I have run wp-admin/upgrade.php many times. But I continue
   with “Comments (0)” at my site [http://www.pilas.net](http://www.pilas.net) Can
   you, please, explain me in simple words what steps I need to follow to have comments
   again? (my language it is not English and perhaps I do not understand all tips).
 *  [ysidoro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ysidoro/)
 * (@ysidoro)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89391)
 * Tks, Beel. I have just check wp_comments table and I confirm that comment_approved
   is set “1”. But I continue with Comments(0)
 *  [ysidoro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ysidoro/)
 * (@ysidoro)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89396)
 * Thank you, Beel.
    Each one of previous comments has comment_aproved=2 in comments
   table. Yours has 1. Ok, I change all of them to 1. Now all comments are there
   again!!. If I modify template as rboren said [http://wordpress.org/support/6/12311#post-73577](http://wordpress.org/support/6/12311#post-73577)
   I lost my complete comment section under posts, then I leave the previous include
   statement.
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89406)
 * I was just typing a response, out of curiousity what was wrong? update of wp-
   comments.php?
 *  [dylan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dylan/)
 * (@dylan)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-in-13-alpha3/#post-89407)
 * I hadn’t been as vigalant against replacing the <?php include(ABSPATH . ‘wp-comments.
   php’); ?> as I should have been.

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