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I’m puzzled as to what’s going on here… I have commenting enabled on a site and it seems to be working fine, except for one entry.

This entry has commenting enabled checked in the entry itself.

I’ve tried stripping back my code to the following:

{exp:weblog:entries dynamic="on" weblog="events"}

{title}

{/exp:weblog:entries}


{exp:comment:entries sort="asc" url_title="{segment_2}" limit="20"}
{name} says:
{comment}
{comment_date format="%D, %F %d, %Y - %g:%i:%s"}

{if no_results}
There are currently no comments for this event.
{/if}
{/exp:comment:entries}

{exp:comment:form weblog="events"}
<fieldset>
<label for="name"><span>Name:</span><input type="text" id="name" name="name" value="{name}" placeholder="Enter your name here" /></label>
<label for="email"><span>Email:</span> <input type="text" id="email" name="email" value="{email}" placeholder="Enter your email address" /></label>
<label for="comment" class="textarea"><span>Comment:</span><textarea id="email" name="comment">{comment}</textarea></label>
{if captcha}
Please enter the word you see in the image below:
<label for="captcha"><input type="text" name="captcha" value="{captcha_word}" size="20" maxlength="20"  /></label>
{captcha} 
{/if}
<input type="submit" class="button" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</fieldset>
{/exp:comment:form}

But still no joy i’m afraid. As I said, this seems to work fine for all other entries 😖

Any clues as to what’s going on here?

Are you getting any errors? Is the comment entry form showing up? Or when you submit a comment, does it just not stick?

Are you accessing this entry properly (as a single-entry)?

http://www.yoursite.com/index.php/template/url_title

Thanks for the reply!

The comment entry form is there and I can submit a comment which appears in the control panel but not on the page on the website, but only for this entry!

I’m accessing the page like http://www.siteurl.com/template/URL_title/ as I have a htaccess rewrite to remove index.php. Don’t think this is the issue though because, as I mentioned, other entries seem fine.

I guess I could try recreating this entry from scratch but it just seems odd and I wouldn’t mind figuring out the issue.

Hi cc000001,

So, the issue is that the comment:entries tag is not working properly for this entry? Please try removing the url_title parameter since the comment:entries tag works dynamically anyway.

Cheers

Greg

Hi Greg,

I only added the url_title as i’ve been trying all sorts to try and get it working… have removed but still no joy I’m afraid.

thanks,

Chris

Chris

What version and build of EE are you using?
Are you using any extensions?

Have you got a link so one of us could try and submit a comment?

Hi John,

Sorry, I missed your reply at the time. But I’m here again because this issue has reared it’s head once more with another entry. It’s so strange.

This entry age is here: http://www.culturepool.org.uk/events/write-now-festival

Now there is a a comment for this entry. In fact, if you visit the site homepage http://www.culturepool.org.uk in the bottom right corner you will see a comment from somebody called Dorothy. If you click the read more link, you will be taken to the entry. Also, the comment appears ok in the control panel ok too, i.e. it’s associated with the correct entry.

It is really strange that this issue only seems to effect certain entries and others are fine.

The version and build are as follows: 1.6.8 & 20100121

I have a number of extensions installed but I have disabled all extensions and still have the same issue

It appears you aren’t using the default method referring to single entry pages. Template_group/template/url_title. If you do so, do things work as expected?

Hi Sue,

Thanks for you help….

I’m not certain what you mean as this is the way I’ve always done things!

I have a template group called events, then in the index template of that group I have the following:

{if segment_2 == ""}
{embed="events/events-list"}
{/if}
{if segment_2 != "" && segment_3 == ""}
{embed="events/events-item"}
{/if}

So, if you have a url of http://www.culturepool.org.uk/ you will see all events and, in the previous example, http://www.culturepool.org.uk/events/write-now-festival/ you will see one event.

Is this not a correct way to do things?

To test this further, I’ve set up a very basic template with no additional functionality on the page.

I’ve set this up to follow the structure mentioned by Sue:

template_group/template_ name/url_title

My template is just called test. And, unfortunately, it still doesn’t work!

This is the entry I was having problems with:

http://www.culturepool.org.uk/events/test/write-now-festival/

as you can see, it’s still showing no comments.

compare this to: http://www.culturepool.org.uk/events/test/the-dreadful-hours or http://www.culturepool.org.uk/events/test/impropriety-official-launch-night/ and you will see they are working fine.

Is this a live site, or a site in progress? Could you also try renaming the url_title to something like write-now-festival-sample, to see if that makes a difference?

Hi there Sue,

Thanks again for your reply. This is a live site. However, I just changed tried changing the url_title as you suggested, and it worked!

Why is this do you think?

It has to do with the URL title itself matching up with something else, such as a template name. Glad things are working again, don’t hesitate to post again as needed.