Comments no longer broken
Update 4: the latest build of beta 3 seems to have fixed the issue. The comment-template.php file is no longer the same as it was in the version that didn’t work - the reference to htmlspecialchars_decode() has been removed. All seems to be fine, and we’re back on the cutting edge!
Update 3: not sure how sound an idea this is, but I’ve now re-loaded beta 3, but with the comment-template.php from beta 2. It seems to accept comments, and I haven’t found anything else broken so far, so we’ll see what happens.
Update 2: the culprit file - comment-template.php - seems to have changed quite extensively from beta 2 to beta 3. Beta 2 does not give the same error, so that’s what is currently powering The New Wolfs Howl comments. I’m loathe to give up the much improved dashboard of 2.7 and return to 2.6.3, so I’m gonna go back to beta 2 for a while.
Update: well, couldn’t work out what exactly was causing the problem but looks like it was something to do with WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 because now that I’ve gone back to 2.6.3 the problem has gone away.
It may not be the beta software itself that is causing the issue; it could be an incompatible plug-in or theme but I wasn’t able to find an obvious culprit during my testing, so I’m putting it down to the beta curse!
Original: Thanks to Gareth for notifying me of this.
If you try to comment on any posts, you’ll probably get the following error (or one very like it):
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: htmlspecialchars_decode() in /home/wolfieb/public_html/wp-includes/comment-template.php on line 802
Your comment will still be submitted, though, and if you refresh the page everything should go back to normal. I’m currently looking into the issue and it’s probably either a problem with the beta version of Wordpress that I’m using, or it’s an issue with my theme not liking the the beta software.
I’ll keep this post updated with changes as they occur.
Doh!
Sorry. When I was making my theme changes yesterday, I was playing around with a number of other files and settings and I managed to break the commenting mechanism; if you left a comment at any point over the last 12 to 15 hours you probably got a “Not Found” error and I won’t have received your comment. It’s all fixed now, so you can comment away as normal.
Thanks to brightfeather for bringing the problem to my notice.
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