Title: Fatal error in comments.php
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Fatal error in comments.php

 *  [Evan Mattson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaemnnosttv/)
 * (@aaemnnosttv)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-in-commentsphp/)
 * This fatal error showed up in my logs today:
 * `PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_post_meta() in ... plugins/disqus-
   comment-system/comments.php`
 * After looking into the file it does not prevent access from executing the file
   directly. This particular request probably came from a bot.
 * See here for more info on how to do this: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#Plugin_Files](http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#Plugin_Files)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-comment-system/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-comment-system/)

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 * Last reply from: [Evan Mattson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaemnnosttv/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-in-commentsphp/)
 * Status: not resolved