Title: Error when commenting a topic
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Error when commenting a topic

 *  Resolved [palatino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/palatino/)
 * (@palatino)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-commenting-a-topic/)
 * Hi there,
 * when commenting a discussion topic I receive a blank page and this error notice:
   `
   Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string
   in /www/htdocs/.../wp-includes/formatting.php on line 1025`
 * I am using a Twenty Sixteen Child Theme with WP 4.2.2
 * Thanks for any help…
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-discussion-board/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-discussion-board/)

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 *  [Gareth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catapult_themes/)
 * (@catapult_themes)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-commenting-a-topic/#post-7153162)
 * Hi – can you provide a link to the site?
 *  Thread Starter [palatino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/palatino/)
 * (@palatino)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-commenting-a-topic/#post-7153168)
 * Hi, I apologize – it was an error with the comments table. No error in discussion
   board plugin. Thanks for your quick reply anyway!

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 * Last reply from: [palatino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/palatino/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-commenting-a-topic/#post-7153168)
 * Status: resolved