I woke up at 2:30 am and could not sleep so decided to log in and reply to all of your wonderful comments and look at that – comments are turned off again, and all of my wordpress “discussion” settings have been changed. They defaulted back to requiring users to be “registered” to comment, as well as requiring an administrato to approve any comment before it appears.

And all comments were turned off on ALL posts and ALL pages. AGAIN.

This has happened to me on September 24 and October 10, 2009. Both times, I’ve had to run this SQL command:

UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status = ‘open’ WHERE comment_status = ‘closed’;

Then go back and manually change the Discussion settings, and turn on commenting on pages.

I cannot find a forum that tells me why this is happening. Some suggest that plug-ins may be doing it. Others suggest that it may be my wordpress theme.

Either way, it’s a huge pain and causes me a lot of stress.

If you notice comments are down, ever, please email me at kimilax@yahoo.com. And please forgive me for not knowing how to fix it permanently.