Title: Error message when commenting.
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Error message when commenting.

 *  Resolved [djfraser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djfraser/)
 * (@djfraser)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-commenting/)
 * Hi, I’m asking this question again as I had no response the first time. I know
   from reading that it’s been a common problem, but after applying the recommended
   fix, the problem remains. An abbreviated error message is below, I have replaced
   wp-includes/wp-db.php with a freshly downloaded version but nothing has changed.
   I would really appreciate some help with this please.
    (I’m running 1.5.2)
 * WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual
   that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near”
   AND post_status = ‘publish’ AND post_date <]
    UPDATE wp_posts SET comment_status
   = ‘closed’, ping_status = ‘closed’ WHERE (comment_status = ‘open’ OR ping_status
   = ‘open’)’ AND post_status = ‘publish’ AND post_date < ‘2006-01-03’
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started
   at /var/www/html/blog/wp-includes/wp-db.php:98) in /var/www/html/blog/wp-comments-
   post.php on line 51

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 *  Thread Starter [djfraser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djfraser/)
 * (@djfraser)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-when-commenting/#post-328874)
 * Found the solution, deleted the “Auto close comments” plugin.

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