Comments are Broken, and WordPress Sucks

October 15, 2010 (Fri)

KZ

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WordPress 3.0 is giving me all kinds of trouble with the comments. Whenever I attempt to post a reply through the comment form, I’m taken to a blank error page. Not good. I may not be able to fix the problem before heading to sleep Thursday night, so I’ll probably have to leave the blog this way for a while until I can come back to it. I’m sorry if this bug has affected any of my readers.

11 Comments

  1. cardiogirl          
    October 7, 2010 at 3:27 am Reply

    Noooooooooooooooooo! This cannot be!

    Have you tried answering from your dashboard as a work-around?

    • KZ          
      October 15, 2010 at 4:45 am Reply

      I actually traced the problem back to a plugin. I think it’s fixed now. Unfortunately, during the process of fixing the problem, I’ve accidentally wiped my comments clean. Thank God I archived all of the emails notifying me when somebody left a comment. For every comment that my WordPress blog ever received, I have an email that duplicates the full text of each message. I did lose all of my replies, however, but I consider that a small loss in comparison to what I could have lost. I’ll be manually re-entering those comments back onto my blog this weekend.

  2. Diana Mueller          
    October 15, 2010 at 12:30 pm Reply

    Ah, that's why I saw you up at 4:30am this morning. Well, the only haunt I want to do this weekend is Candlelighters. That will only take up like 1 hour. The rest of the weekend is yours. It's your "break weekend" so you better enjoy it. Next week is the haunt Sonoma.

  3. Nicky          
    October 17, 2010 at 5:12 pm Reply

    We had some comment issues too, but Mike managed to fix it. Which is good 'cause I'm useless when it comes to the "back-end" stuff.

    • KZ          
      October 21, 2010 at 12:45 am Reply

      I wish I had a tech guy to fix all of my stupid mistakes. I got into this blogging thing because I'm a writer, not a programmer. :P

      • mike          
        October 21, 2010 at 7:59 pm

        That's funny, I got in this blogging thing because I'm a programmer, not a writer.

        Not entirely true, but I thought it would be fun to say it like that :D

      • KZ          
        October 25, 2010 at 12:17 pm

        Hehe, naysaying is always fun, isn't it?

  4. Simon White          
    October 18, 2010 at 7:53 am Reply

    If you have a DB backup hanging around somewhere you could use that to restore comments.

    Wordpress is pretty stable, but there are some doubtful plugins out there.

    If you have specific issues I know Wordpress quite well, drop me a line or ask me a question http://www.caperet.com/need-help-with-your-blog/.

    • KZ          
      October 21, 2010 at 12:47 am Reply

      Simon, thank you for your kind offer. Unfortunately, I was supremely stupid, and I did not back up my comments database. I ended up replenishing the comments the hard way.

  5. Angie          
    October 21, 2010 at 8:50 am Reply

    I didnt know you had an active blog :(
    Wish I did :)
    hope you are going well, I miss you two!

    • KZ          
      October 25, 2010 at 12:23 pm Reply

      Well, I do. I've told you about it before. Well anyway, you know about it now. Thanks for commenting, Angie.

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