Title: blank wp-comments-post.php page when commenting
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# blank wp-comments-post.php page when commenting

 *  Resolved [songjewel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songjewel/)
 * (@songjewel)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-wp-comments-postphp-page-when-commenting/)
 * I’m working on a custom theme, but there seems to be an issue with the comments.
   I haven’t changed anything outside of the theme directory, so perhaps someone
   could give me a hand with what’s wrong here…I’m a bit new to CSS and PHP.
 * When someone tries to post a comment to my blog candycornstudios.com/ArtistAlley
   the wp-comments-post.php comes up blank after the reply button is hit. I don’t
   know what’s wrong…help?

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 *  [Sabrina Morgan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sabrinamorgan/)
 * (@sabrinamorgan)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-wp-comments-postphp-page-when-commenting/#post-324693)
 * I’m having the same problem, using the Mallow theme. Any ideas as to what’s going
   on?
 *  Thread Starter [songjewel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songjewel/)
 * (@songjewel)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-wp-comments-postphp-page-when-commenting/#post-324694)
 * Nope, I still haven’t figured it out. When I searched the backlogs I found one
   other person with the problem, but they never got answered…figured it out themselves.
   Apparently there was something wrong with a file in the parent directory of the
   blog install. I don’t think there are any files in my parent directory that could
   affect my blog…and they didn’t say what it was, so I can’t check. Sorry I can’t
   be of more help…I’m just checking this thread daily. ^^
 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-wp-comments-postphp-page-when-commenting/#post-324695)
 * Songjewel: It’s the “Submit” button ( sorry just had to mark that ;-), but it
   works fine for me. I don’t get a blank page but the same single post page, including
   my comments.
 * And by the way. Your blog looks really great!
 *  Thread Starter [songjewel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songjewel/)
 * (@songjewel)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-wp-comments-postphp-page-when-commenting/#post-324697)
 * petit…I think you’re posting in the wrong one. You’re posting in the CandyCorn
   studios blog and not the ArtistAlley one…you probably didn’t get the whole URL.
   And yes, it is the submit button. >< Sorry about that.
 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-wp-comments-postphp-page-when-commenting/#post-324699)
 * You’re right of course – sorry about that!
    It’s the night of sorries – er..
 * So I tried the right address, and of course, once I made my comment I got your
   empty page.
    What it should do is to give a redirect to the same page, but it
   does not! I have seen this behavior on quite a few blogs, and it’s very unsatisfactory,
   as the commenter will never know if the comment was saved. I’ll look into it 
   and see what’s going on.
 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-wp-comments-postphp-page-when-commenting/#post-324700)
 * I compared the comment submit forms on my blog ( which works ) and your blog.
 * Both submits as the should to `wp-comments-post.php`
    In my form I have two hidden
   input variables: `<input type="hidden"  name="comment_post_ID"  value="125" /
   > <input type="hidden"  name="redirect_to"  value="/blog/2006/01/26/some-post-
   slug/" />
 * These variables are missing in your comments form, and certainly the second is
   the one responsible for the correct redirect.
 * Edit: This is different in different themes. The wp-comments-post.php uses this
   explicit redirect value or the `get_permalink( $comment_post_ID )` function to
   get the permalink of the commented post.
 *  Thread Starter [songjewel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songjewel/)
 * (@songjewel)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-wp-comments-postphp-page-when-commenting/#post-324708)
 * Thanks you! I will try the code as soon as I get back from class. I appreciate
   the help!
 *  Thread Starter [songjewel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songjewel/)
 * (@songjewel)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-wp-comments-postphp-page-when-commenting/#post-324718)
 * Well, it wasn’t what you posted petit, althoguh thanks for the time. You gave
   me the idea to replace bits of code that differred from the default comment form(
   I should have done that initially. ><), which worked. I just Took the default
   of comments.php and re-worked it instead of using the one from the theme.
 * Sabrina, you might try looking at that…see if the default comments.php file works
   in place of the one from your theme. It might be an error with the comment form.
 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-wp-comments-postphp-page-when-commenting/#post-324727)
 * You’re a jewel! 😉
 *  [pati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pati/)
 * (@pati)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-wp-comments-postphp-page-when-commenting/#post-324775)
 * hi!
 * when i want to submit a comment, i get “site not found” error. i would be glad,
   if there was at least a blank page.
 * any idea where the error could be? would be thankful for every help.
 * pati
 * ps: when i look in the admin-area comments are there.
 *  [pati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pati/)
 * (@pati)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blank-wp-comments-postphp-page-when-commenting/#post-324776)
 * hi again.
 * problem was the permalink structure, which still don’t work. put the permalink
   structure back to default and comments work .
 * best wishes,
    pati

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