Title: Comments spilling over
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Comments spilling over

 *  [panthersweat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/panthersweat/)
 * (@panthersweat)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-spilling-over/)
 * Greetings gurus. I’m having a bit of an issue with the comments in my first wordpress
   theme. It appears that if I post a comment into the first article the same comment(
   s) will show up in every other article. I’ve looked through the comments.php 
   and didn’t notice anything unusual.
 * I’m building off of Starkers clean slate and the link to the actual worksite 
   is [here](http://www.supremevictory.com/WP/).
 * Is there something missing off the bat, like a unique identifier for tying the
   comments to the article? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-spilling-over/#post-882180)
 * `<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="1" />` **
    if you look at
   your source for differnet permalink pages, you will notice they all have that.
   at least the 2 posts I looked at have that.
 * that’s not right. That value is dynamically generated — its the post ID, and 
   every post has a different one.
 * the corresponding line, inside your theme’s comments.php, the way it **ought**
   to be is like so:
 * `<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />`
 * note also that the two 2.6.2 themes contain this:
 * `<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>`
 * that hook above, is added before the closing </form>`
    —
 * For more info, and to see what a working comments.php looks like, look inside
   either of the 2 themes that ‘ship’ with WP.
 * If your comment.php looks right, and the unedited stalker theme I looked at has
   it done right, then you need to disable pretty permalinks and determine why the
   post_id is being set to 1 for all posts. I say disable permalinks, because the
   default permalink also uses that, so it might narrow down whether or not its 
   a global problem.
 * ** I edited that to reflect whats really in the source, rather than what FF tells
   us is in the source. believe it or not, FF likes to “order” things around.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-spilling-over/#post-882182)
 * [http://www.supremevictory.com/WP/?p=5](http://www.supremevictory.com/WP/?p=5)
 * I assume thats going to the right post_id though … so its probably the changes
   youve made to the theme.
 * for what its worth,
 * have you looked at these:
 * [http://www.supremevictory.com/WP/?p=3](http://www.supremevictory.com/WP/?p=3)
   
   [http://www.supremevictory.com/WP/?p=4](http://www.supremevictory.com/WP/?p=4)
 * I dont like how revisions come up, and Ive never noticed that before.
 * thats kinda “eww”.
 *  Thread Starter [panthersweat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/panthersweat/)
 * (@panthersweat)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-spilling-over/#post-882183)
 * Thanks for the quick response, whooami.
 * I can definitely follow with you and see what you’re talking about near the submit
   button. The code you listed is just as you mentioned.
 * <input name=”submit” type=”submit” id=”submit” tabindex=”5″ value=”Submit Comment”/
   >
    <input type=”hidden” name=”comment_post_ID” value=”<?php echo $id; ?>” /> 
   <?php do_action(‘comment_form’, $post->ID); ?>
 * Any idea why the ID wouldn’t get passed? Quite mysterious! I tried punching in
   <?php echo $id; ?> within the content to see what the variable was at, but it
   doesn’t display a number on the page.
 *  Thread Starter [panthersweat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/panthersweat/)
 * (@panthersweat)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-spilling-over/#post-882184)
 * Ew indeed! That’s quite strange. I didn’t touch the theme too deep other than
   applying div tags to throw columns around. Do you have an insight as to what 
   would have caused this gross formatting?
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-spilling-over/#post-882185)
 * well, this is what I would do..
 * switch to one of the defualt themes, see if that doesnt solve the comments issue.
   I know you said the comments.php looks right, but change themes to make sure.
 * as for the revisions being seen.. what are those posts? one is a revision, yes,
   and the other?
 * I’ll be honest and say Ive never seen that before, but then, Ive never poked 
   around on a 2.6.x site like that before.
 * Maybe its just the way things are, I honestly dont know.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-spilling-over/#post-882187)
 * I tested that on the demo on opensource CMS
 * [http://demo.opensourcecms.com/wordpress/?p=2](http://demo.opensourcecms.com/wordpress/?p=2)
 * thats a draft of this:
 * [http://demo.opensourcecms.com/wordpress/?p=3](http://demo.opensourcecms.com/wordpress/?p=3)
 * notice that that isnt behaving like yours. (Those links will expire, OSC resets
   the demos every 15 mins or something)
 * I cant speak to the cause of what that is, or if its related to the original 
   problem.
 * What plugins, if any, are you using?
 *  Thread Starter [panthersweat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/panthersweat/)
 * (@panthersweat)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-spilling-over/#post-882191)
 * Good call. I switched back to the Kubrick theme and did see the corrections made.
   Was hoping you would know about those revisions, at this point we’re both lost
   when it comes to that garbage. 😉
 * Thanks for your help, whooami. I’ve learned my lesson thanks to you and will 
   be starting over again fresh.
 *  Thread Starter [panthersweat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/panthersweat/)
 * (@panthersweat)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-spilling-over/#post-882192)
 * That’s quite strange. What’s up with that demo? Here are my plugins;
    - Askimet 2.2
    - Hello Dolly 1.5
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-spilling-over/#post-882193)
 * well
 * now that youve put that unedited theme back (I assume thats the clean one) your
   defualt permalinks are behaving normally too:
 * [http://www.supremevictory.com/WP/?p=10](http://www.supremevictory.com/WP/?p=10)
 * thats what ought to be there, thats what you want.
 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-spilling-over/#post-882194)
 * > What’s up with that demo?
 * what do you mean?
 * its a demo 🙂 its for people that want to test drive wordpress without installing
   it.
 * Opencms has lots of different apps there you can check out. Its handy, very.
 *  Thread Starter [panthersweat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/panthersweat/)
 * (@panthersweat)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-spilling-over/#post-882195)
 * You assumed correctly, I just threw the barebones theme back on there and it 
   works just as it should. Fingers can definitely point me to blame, the only mystery
   is why. The demo part made sense but I didn’t understand the concept of the revision
   being so misaligned. Great site by the way.

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