{"id":7255194,"date":"2016-04-09T00:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T00:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/comments-open-hook-isnt-working\/"},"modified":"2016-08-31T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T15:38:08","slug":"comments-open-hook-isnt-working","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/comments-open-hook-isnt-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments open hook isn&#039;t working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I am using code in my functions page that used to work just fine.  Now it isn&#8217;t and I&#8217;m not sure if something has changed with WordPress or not.<\/p>\n<pre><code>\/\/ opens comments on CAP project pages only for specific project statuses\nadd_filter( &#039;comments_open&#039;, &#039;my_comments_open&#039;, 10, 2 );\nfunction my_comments_open( $open, $page_id ) {\n\t$post = get_post( $page_id );\n\t$awaiting_approval = get_field(&#039;project_status&#039;) == &quot;awaiting approval&quot;;\n\t$designing = get_field(&#039;project_status&#039;) == &quot;designing&quot;;\n        if ( is_single(&#039;cap&#039;) &amp;&amp; ($awaiting_approval || $designing) ) {$open = true;}\n\t\telse {$open = false;}\n\treturn $open;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>It shows the comment text box as though it is open, but the moment you hit submit, you get the &#8220;Sorry, comments are closed for this item.&#8221; error page.  So it is like they are open, but not really.<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-7255194","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/7255194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/7255194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7255194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}