Title: Problem in comment-functions.php?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problem in comment-functions.php?

 *  [Lucky1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucky1/)
 * (@lucky1)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-in-comment-functionsphp/)
 * Hi,
    I think I have found a bug in the newes nigthly built(12.02.2005). In the
   comment-functions.php at line 23-26: `if ( file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . $file )
   require( TEMPLATEPATH . $file ); else require( ABSPATH . "wp-content/themes/default/
   comments.php"); endif; That if-function loads the “wp-content/themes/default/
   comments.php” only. It’s doesn’t load any other comments.php because $file is
   empty. It works when you use:  if ( file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . "/comments.php"))
   require( TEMPLATEPATH . "/comments.php"); else require( ABSPATH . "wp-content/
   themes/default/comments.php");
 * Should I added it in the mosquito Bugtracker?
 * – bjoern

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 *  [Scott Reilly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coffee2code/)
 * (@coffee2code)
 * WordPress & Plugin Developer
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-in-comment-functionsphp/#post-143562)
 * Yes, bugs should be reported to the bugtracker. Bugs reported solely on the forum
   stand a high risk of falling through the cracks.
 * However, what you’re reporting doesn’t appear to be a bug. The function `comments_template()`
   sets the default for `$file` to be “/comments.php”. All WP calls to `comments_template()`
   do so without an argument, so the default would be used. Which leads me to wonder…
   in your template, what does the call to `comments_template()` look like? If you
   sending an argument, is it something other than a comments template filename?
 *  [dcdulong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcdulong/)
 * (@dcdulong)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-in-comment-functionsphp/#post-143893)
 * I’ve noticed something really strange within the past four nightly builds. It
   appears that only the `comments.php` file in `/wp-content/themes/default` is 
   being loaded, even though I have a `comments.php` file in my own template directory(`/
   wp-content/themes/upanddown`). It was working fine a few nightlies ago.
 * I can verify this by editing the “default” `comments.php` file and seeing the
   changes right away, whereas editing mine makes no impact on my blog. Any ideas?
 *  [dcdulong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcdulong/)
 * (@dcdulong)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-in-comment-functionsphp/#post-143898)
 * By the way, I’m currently running 1.5-gamma 2005-02-14 but I noticed this problem
   about four nightly builds ago…
 *  [dcdulong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcdulong/)
 * (@dcdulong)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-in-comment-functionsphp/#post-143998)
 * Got it. Turns out `comments_template()` now has a default argument of `is_single()`.
   Removing the argument made everything all better.

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 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [dcdulong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcdulong/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-in-comment-functionsphp/#post-143998)
 * Status: not resolved

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