Leave a Comment disappears on custom page after 1 comment is posted

I was looking at the code in comments.php and noticed that the custom pages don’t satisfy the condition open comment status for the form.
I did a var_dump on the $post array and the value of “comment status” is “open” in a regular post page, but the values in the entire array on the custom page is only “int(2)”. Why is it removing the open status???

I created another new page called test. Without any comments it dumps the array just fine with the comment satus = “open”.

object(stdClass)#80 (25) { ["ID"]=>  int(19) ["post_author"]=>  string(1) "1"
["post_date"]=>  string(19) "2010-04-06 12:53:06"
["post_date_gmt"]=>  string(19) "2010-04-06 17:53:06" ["post_content"]=>  string(16) "testing comments"
["post_title"]=>  string(4) "test" ["post_excerpt"]=>  string(0) "" ["post_status"]=>  string(7) "publish"
["comment_status"]=>  string(4) "open"
["ping_status"]=>  string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=>  string(0) "" ["post_name"]=>  string(6) "test-2"
["to_ping"]=>  string(0) "" ["pinged"]=>  string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=>  string(19) "2010-04-06 12:53:43" ["post_modified_gmt"]=>  string(19) "2010-04-06 17:53:43" ["post_content_filtered"]=>  string(0) ""
["post_parent"]=>  int(0)
["guid"]=>  string(47) "http://www.mysite.com/blog/?page_id=19" ["menu_order"]=>  int(0)
["post_type"]=>  string(4) "page"
["post_mime_type"]=>  string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=>  string(1) "0" ["ancestors"]=>  array(0) { }
["filter"]=>  string(3) "raw" }

If I add comment to the test page, the $post array dump is : int(19)

Why is it deleting all the array values (except for the page value?? int(19))… only after I have added 1 comment????

Are custom pages designed to only accept 1 comment?

Here’s the page code:

<?php
if (!empty($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) && 'comments.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']))
die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!');
if ( post_password_required() ) {
echo '<p class="nocomments">';
echo _e('This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments.','lightword');
echo '</p>';
return;
}
$comments_nr = fb_get_comment_type_count('comment');
$trackbacks_nr = fb_get_comment_type_count('pings');
$oddcomment = 'alt ';
?>
<div id="tabsContainer">
<a href="#" class="tabs selected"><span><?php _e('Comments','lightword'); ?> (<?php echo $comments_nr; ?>)</span></a>
<a href="#" class="tabs"><span><?php _e('Trackbacks','lightword'); ?> (<?php echo $trackbacks_nr; ?>)</span></a>
<span class="subscribe_comments"><?php post_comments_feed_link(__('( subscribe to comments on this post )','lightword')); ?></span>
<div class="clear_tab"></div>
<div class="tab-content selected">
<a name="comments"></a>

<?php if ( $comments ) : ?>

<div id="comentarii">
<ol class="commentlist">
<?php wp_list_comments('type=comment&callback=nested_comments'); ?>
</ol>

<?php if ((int) get_option('page_comments') === 1 && get_comment_pages_count() > 1): ?>

<div class="next_previous_links_comments">
<span class="alignleft"><?php previous_comments_link(__('&laquo; Older Comments','lightword')); ?></span>
<span class="alignright"><?php next_comments_link(__('Newer Comments &raquo;','lightword')); ?></span>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>

<?php endif; ?>
</div>

<?php else : ?>
<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
<p class="no"><?php _e('No comments yet.','lightword'); ?></p>
<?php else : // comments are closed ?>
<p class="no"><?php _e('Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.','lightword'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>

<br /><div id="respond">
<h2 style="background:transparent;"><?php comment_form_title( __('Leave a comment', 'lightword'), 'Reply' ); ?></h2>
comments<br />
<?php if ( get_option('comment_registration') && !$user_ID ) : ?>
<p><?php printf(__('You must be <a href="%s">logged in</a> to post a comment.','lightword'), get_option('siteurl')."/wp-login.php?redirect_to=".urlencode(get_permalink()));?></p>
<?php else : ?>

<form action="<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">
<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>
<p><?php printf(__('Logged in as %s.','lightword'), '<a href="'.get_option('siteurl').'/wp-admin/profile.php">'.$user_identity.'</a>'); ?> <a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url(get_permalink()); ?>" title="<?php _e('Log out of this account','lightword') ?>"><?php _e('Log out &raquo;','lightword'); ?></a></p>

<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="1"></textarea></p>

<?php else : ?>

<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="1"></textarea></p>
<p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="22" tabindex="1" />
<label for="author"><small><?php _e('Name','lightword'); ?> <?php if ($req) _e('(required)','lightword'); ?></small></label></p>

<p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="22" tabindex="2" />
<label for="email"><small><?php _e('Mail (will not be published)','lightword');?> <?php if ($req) _e('(required)','lightword'); ?></small></label></p>

<p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="22" tabindex="3" />
<label for="url"><small><?php _e('Website','lightword'); ?></small></label></p>

<?php endif; ?>

<p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="4" accesskey="s" value="<?php echo attribute_escape(__('Submit','lightword')); ?>" /><?php cancel_comment_reply_link(__('( Cancel )', 'lightword')); ?><br class="clear"/></p>
<?php comment_id_fields(); ?>
<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>
</form>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>

<div class="tab-content">
<?php if($trackbacks_nr == "0" && pings_open()) { echo "<p class=\"no\">"; ?><?php _e('No trackbacks yet.','lightword'); ?><?php echo "</p>"; } ?>
<?php if(!pings_open()) { echo "<p class=\"no\">"; ?><?php _e('Trackbacks are disabled.','lightword'); ?><?php echo "</p>"; } ?>
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
<?php $comment_type = get_comment_type(); ?>
<?php if($comment_type != 'comment') { ?>
<div class="trackbacks"><?php comment_author_link() ?></div>
<?php } ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</div>
</div>