-- wordpress comments section not submitting comment --
I'm adding a comment section at the end of my single.php by calling comments_template(). The comments section loads fine and even shows posts that I've added manually in the admin section.
BUT when I try to submit a post it redirects to front_page.php and the form parameters are added to the url.
I think the problem is that there is no form tag surrounding the comments section in the HTML but I don't know why that is happening.
Things I have done:
- checked that comments are enabled in the settings page and on specific posts
- tried adding a form manually around comments_template() but it gets removed
- made sure that comments_template() is called inside the loop
- checked i'm calling comment_form() correctly
- turned off all plugins and still not working
There was a problem previously where I couldn't access the discussion settings in the admin section, this is now rectified so I don't know if it is related.
<?php /*
comments.php
*/
if ( post_password_required() ) {
return;
}
?>
<?php
// Do not delete these lines
if (!empty($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) && 'comments.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']))
die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!');
?>
<div id="comments" class="comments-area">
<?php comment_form(); ?>
</div><!-- .comments-area -->
