Title: Comments Fatal Error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comments Fatal Error

 *  [justkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justkat/)
 * (@justkat)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-fatal-error/)
 * Fatal error: Cannot redeclare add_magic_quotes() (previously declared in c:\hosting\
   webhost4life\member\katsstuff\katskitchen\
    wp-comments-post.php:4) in c:\hosting\
   webhost4life\member\katsstuff\katskitchen\ wp-includes\functions.php on line 
   1738
 * Now what?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-fatal-error/#post-170298)
 * What version of wp are you running ?
    What plugins do you have ?
 *  Thread Starter [justkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justkat/)
 * (@justkat)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-fatal-error/#post-170300)
 * Sorry – 1.5 and no plug-ins enabled
 * [http://www.katskitchen.katsstuff.com](http://www.katskitchen.katsstuff.com)
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-fatal-error/#post-170301)
 * Is this an upgrade ?
    If so, did you delete the old files before uploading new?
 *  Thread Starter [justkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justkat/)
 * (@justkat)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-fatal-error/#post-170305)
 * Yes, and it was working last night except that my pop-up comments template didn’t
   look right.
 * I copied the classic theme and used those files to create a new theme hoping 
   that would fix the pop-up comment problem and it did, looks-wise. Then the fatal
   error issue arose, so I deleted the new theme I’d created from my server.
 * Did I screw up when I duplicated the original theme? Should I just scrap the 
   whole thing and start over?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-fatal-error/#post-170312)
 * It could well be that you have inadvertently included some php somewhere which
   is trying to use the same function twice wrongly.
    A very careful comparison 
   of your work with a default files should highlight the problem line(s)
 *  Thread Starter [justkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justkat/)
 * (@justkat)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-fatal-error/#post-170319)
 * Okay – comments are working again, but I’m back to the original problem of the
   main page being squashed into the comments box after posting a comment.
 * Once you close the comment box and look again they look fine.
 * How do I fix this?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [justkat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justkat/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-fatal-error/#post-170319)
 * Status: not resolved

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