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Unfortunately, I have still been unable to test the above coding (I have full access to the WP as an admin but do not have full access to the files on the site so cannot see the lib folder to look at the function in \wp-content\themes\genesis\lib\structure

However, I thought I would try to apply this with a different theme on my own test WordPress. I have Asteroid Child installed. The search form is on the parent Asteroid theme header.php

Confirming that a little knowledge truly is a dangerous thing and not really knowing what I’m doing, after a lot of trial and error (errors galore), I have the following coding that doesn’t work but at least has stopped throwing any errors:

function my_search_form() {
$searchhome="echo home_url('/');";
$searchonfocus="if (this.value == 'Search') {this.value = '';}";
$searchonblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search';}";

if ( asteroid_option('ast_menu_search') == 1 ) {
	$form = '<div id="nav-search">
		<form id="nav-searchform" role="search" method="get" action="$searchhome">
	<input id="nav-s" type="text" value="Search" onfocus="$searchonfocus" onblur="$searchonblur" name="s" />
<span id="exact-phrase" title="toggle for exact phrase"><input type="checkbox" name="phrase" id="phrase" /><label for="phrase" >exact&nbsp;phrase</label></span>
	<input id="nav-searchsubmit" type="submit" value="" />
		</form>
</div>
	';
}
	return apply_filters( 'my_search_form', $form, $searchhome,
$searchonfocus, $searchonblur );

add_filter( 'ast_menu_search', 'my_search_form' );

}

I didn’t have
add_filter( 'ast_menu_search', 'my_search_form' );
initially and hoped that adding it, by a miracle, the functions.php coding would suddenly work. Alas no. (Big surprise.) The exact phrase checkbox refuses to show.

This is the coding for the search form that appears on the parent Asteroid in header.php:

<!-- Searchform -->
		<?php if ( asteroid_option('ast_menu_search') == 1 ) : ?>
			<div id="nav-search">
				<form id="nav-searchform" role="search" method="get" action="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>">
					<input id="nav-s" type="text" value="Search" onfocus="if (this.value == 'Search') {this.value = '';}" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'Search';}" name="s" />
					<input id="nav-searchsubmit" type="submit" value="" />
				</form>
			</div>

Do I have to make a mention of the header.php in the child functions? If so, how would I do that?

Many thanks for any help.

E Morris (WP 3.7.1)

Excuse me for replying to myself. I finally found it. On my theme’s search.php file, I had to look for the instances of

<?php echo attribute_escape($s); ?>

and change the surrounding quote marks for square brackets.

It’s easy once you know what to look for….

I am happy to say that I have finally figured out what the problem was. For some reason, a commented out section on one of the approved comments caused the rest of the comments to disappear.

I approved the comment because it was on-topic but hadn’t decided yet whether to allow the blatant advertisement at the end so simply commented it out:

<!– span style=”color:#abc;” Visit h t t p : / / s o m e o n e – s – t o u r i s m w e b s i t e . c o m providing information about (a href=”http://someone-s-tourismwebsite.com/tourism.html&#8221; rel=”nofollow”>)Tourism(/a), (a href=”http://someone-s-tourismwebsite.com/&#8221; rel=”nofollow”)Business Directory(/a) –>

I’ve done this before without anything exploding but for some reason, it didn’t work this time.

Still, I’m really glad to have discovered that I don’t have to change my theme.

edit: I just experimented and this commented out section DOES work:

<!-- Visit h t t p : / / s o m e o n e - s - t o u r i s m w e b s i t e . c o m providing information about Tourism -->

It might be theme-specific. If I switch to twenty twelve, the missing comments show up. However, everything was working well (until yesterday) with my custom theme since February when I upgraded to 3.5.1

I have a feeling that it might be an apparently inactive plugin.

And NOW new images are refusing to show up in Twenty Twelve as well.

I uploaded this today: etherwork.net/blog/?attachment_id=1721 It shows up in my admin area but not on the blog itself.

I’ll try resetting the plugins folder. Fingers crossed that it will work.

Aha. It appears that I do need to repair my database. I backed it up and then went to /wp-admin/maint/repair.php and followed the instructions to add define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true); to my config file. I reloaded the page and received the following message:

wp_usermeta: 1 client is using or hasn’t closed the table properly
wp_posts: 2 clients are using or haven’t closed the table properly
wp_comments: 4 clients are using or haven’t closed the table properly
wp_options: 4 clients are using or haven’t closed the table properly
wp_postmeta: 2 clients are using or haven’t closed the table properly
wp_commentmeta: 4 clients are using or haven’t closed the table properly

Please advise.

You’re correct, Esmi. My comments.php file isn’t using wp_list_comments() I have been running the wordpress 3.5.1 for some time now without any glitches.

The comments have been showing up perfectly well without wp_list_comments() since yesterday at 2013/06/03 at 09:57 EDT.

The comment from Barbara that is refusing to show up was submitted 2013/06/03 at 22:00 EDT

What else might have happened in those 12 hours that would have caused this?

Thank you, Esmi. This is not my host but my sister’s. She is on the west coast and it is still insanely early on a holiday Monday so I cannot ask her.

What exactly is the mod_rewrite coding that should be in the .htaccess file for the wp folder? (Has wp stopped including .htaccess files in the download packages?)