Title: Threaded Comments Not Working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Threaded Comments Not Working

 *  Resolved [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * (@sayontan)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/threaded-comments-not-working/)
 * I am trying to enhance my theme and add support for threaded comments there. 
   But this doesn’t seem to work. I followed the instructions at [http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Plugins_and_Themes_to_2.7/Enhanced_Comment_Display](http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Plugins_and_Themes_to_2.7/Enhanced_Comment_Display)
   and made all the required changes:
    1. I put in the loop to use wp_list_comments() with the no extra parameters in 
       my comments.php
    2. I added `if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' );` to my header.
       php, just above the call to wp_head()
    3. I added the call to `comment_id_fields();` in my comments form.
    4. My comments textarea has ID = “comment”
    5. My comment form is enclosed in a div with ID = “respond”
 * The following is the code for my comments.php file:
 * >     ```
   >     <div id="comments-wrap">
   >     <?php // Do not delete these lines
   >     	if (!empty($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) && 'comments.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']))
   >     		die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!');
   > 
   >     	if ( post_password_required() ) { ?>
   >     		<p class="nocomments">This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments.</p>
   >     	<?php
   >     		return;
   >     	}
   >     ?>
   > 
   >     <!-- You can start editing here. -->
   >     <?php // Begin Comments & Trackbacks ?>
   >     <?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>
   >     <h3 class="comments"><?php comments_number('No Comments', 'One Comments', '% Comments' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</h3>
   >     	<div class="navigation">
   >     		<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_comments_link() ?></div>
   >     		<div class="alignright"><?php next_comments_link() ?></div>
   >     	</div>
   > 
   >     <ul class="commentlist">
   >     	<?php
   >     	$commentargs = array(
   >     		"thread_comments_depth" => 5,
   >     		"avatar_size" => 48
   >     	);
   > 
   >     	wp_list_comments($commentargs);
   >     	?>
   >     </ul>
   >     	<div class="navigation">
   >     		<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_comments_link() ?></div>
   >     		<div class="alignright"><?php next_comments_link() ?></div>
   >     </div>
   >     <?php // End Comments ?>
   > 
   >      <?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
   > 
   >     	<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
   >     		<!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->
   > 
   >     	 <?php else : // comments are closed ?>
   >     		<!-- If comments are closed. -->
   >     		<p><?php _e('Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.'); ?></p>
   > 
   >     	<?php endif; ?>
   >     <?php endif; ?>
   > 
   >     <?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
   > 
   >     <div id="respond">
   > 
   >     <h3 class="respond"><?php comment_form_title( 'Leave a Reply', 'Leave a Reply to %s' ); ?></h3>
   > 
   >     <?php if ( get_option('comment_registration') && !$user_ID ) : ?>
   >     <p>You must be <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink()); ?>">logged in</a> to post a comment.</p>
   > 
   >     <?php else : ?>
   > 
   >     <form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">
   > 
   >     	<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>
   > 
   >     <p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>. <a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url(get_permalink()); ?>" title="Log out of this account">Log out &raquo;</a></p>
   > 
   >     	<?php else : ?>
   > 
   >     	<p>
   >     	<input type="text" name="author" id="author" class="textarea" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="28" tabindex="1" />
   >     	<label for="author"><?php _e('Name'); ?></label> <?php if ($req) _e('(required)'); ?>
   >     	</p>
   > 
   >     	<p>
   >     	<input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="28" tabindex="2" class="textarea" />
   >     	<label for="email"><?php _e('E-mail'); ?></label> <?php if ($req) _e('(required)'); ?>
   >     	</p>
   > 
   >     	<p>
   >     	<input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="28" tabindex="3" class="textarea" />
   >     	<label for="url"><?php _e('<acronym title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</acronym>'); ?></label>
   >     	</p>
   > 
   >     	<?php endif; ?>
   > 
   >     	<p>
   >     	<label for="comment"><?php _e('Your Comment'); ?></label>
   >     	<br />
   >     	<textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="60" rows="10" tabindex="4" class="textarea"></textarea>
   >     	</p>
   > 
   >     <div class="cancel-comment-reply">
   >     	<small><?php cancel_comment_reply_link(); ?></small>
   >     </div>
   > 
   >     	<p>
   >     	<?php comment_id_fields(); ?>
   >     	<input name="submit" id="submit" type="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php _e('submit'); ?>" class="Cbutton" />
   >     	</p>
   >     	<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>
   >     </form>
   >     <?php endif; ?>
   >     </div>
   >     <?php else : // Comments are closed ?>
   >     <p><?php _e('Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.'); ?></p>
   >     <?php endif; ?>
   >     </div>
   >     ```
   > 
 * The following is the amendment in my header.php:
 * >     ```
   >     <?php
   >     	if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' );
   >     	wp_head();
   >     ?>
   >     ```
   > 
 * And the following are the changes made in functions.php:
 * >     ```
   >     // Begin legacy comments support
   >     add_filter( 'comments_template', 'legacy_comments' );
   >     function legacy_comments( $file ) {
   >     	if ( !function_exists('wp_list_comments') )
   >     		$file = TEMPLATEPATH . '/legacy-comments.php';
   >     	return $file;
   >     }
   >     //End legacy coments support
   >     ```
   > 
 * I have ensured that nested comments are turned on from the settings page as well.
 * Here is what happens:
    - I can see a “Reply” link for each comment. When I click on it the comment 
      form moves right below it. So the Javascript is working.
    - When I post, however, the comment goes to the end of the list – the list is
      in the order of posting the comments. Also, the depth of the comments is always“
      depth-1”. See here: [http://www.aquoid.com/sandbox/?p=188](http://www.aquoid.com/sandbox/?p=188).
    - I switched to the WP default theme. The results are slightly different: when
      I post a response to a comment, the new comment shows up where it should, 
      but I still get “depth-1” always, so there is no nesting.
 * What could I be doing wrong?

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 *  Thread Starter [Sayontan Sinha](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sayontan/)
 * (@sayontan)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/threaded-comments-not-working/#post-1173364)
 * Quite interestingly my code works for comments on another post. Maybe it had 
   something to do with some orphaned comments in the post I was trying to handle.
   I was successful in creating a new comment and then threading a reply from it.
   This bug report probably addresses my issue: [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8841#preview](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8841#preview)
 *  [Gouri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gouri/)
 * (@gouri)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/threaded-comments-not-working/#post-1173666)
 * ‘comments are closed’ thing was not working on my [site](http://www.ezaroorat.com).
   Probably this would help, thanks.

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