Comments working again!

I found out last week that the comment function was broken on this blog. I was thinking that the spam fighting of 2.1 and Akismet must be superb.

Every time you hit Submit the system would just show a blank screen with …\wp-comments-post.php showing in the address bar. Testing out the $_Post variables showed them all as empty. For some reason the variables from the form were not being passed on to the comment handling form.

Turns out I had put the www as part of the site urls in the WordPress options screens but I had set up my DreamHost account to strip the www. Don’t know why this ‘broke’ the comments, but am sure glad that just going in and removing the www from the urls fixed the problem.

So, if you have a comment that you wanted to post, please try it again. And you spammers out there — oh well, you don’t listen anyway.