Title: Theme Comments Help
Last modified: November 10, 2022

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# Theme Comments Help

 *  [Turk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/turk/)
 * (@turk)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-comments-help/)
 * So I retired my blog back in 2016 for work reasons. Now it is 2022 and I’ve brought
   my blog back online. I’m having some minor issues with the comment displays.
 * In 2016 it would show only the comment box if you happened to be logged in and
   if you had no account or not logged in it would show text boxes for Author, Email,
   and Website.
 * Now in 2022 it doesn’t seem to know I’m logged in any more and shows the three
   text boxes.
 * I know nothing of php other than the basics. My “theme” is one I somehow threw
   together using another theme as a template.
 * This is the portion of code that I need help fixing:
 *     ```
       <?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
       	<div class="center-widget-title" id="respond"><?php _e('Leave a Reply'); ?></div>
       	<div class="center-widget">
   
       		<?php if ( get_option('comment_registration') && !$user_ID ) : ?>
       			<p><a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php _e('logged in'); ?></a> <?php _e('to post a comment'); ?>.</p>
       		<?php else : ?>
       			<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">
       			<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>
       				<p><?php _e('Logged in as'); ?> <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>. <a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url() ?>" title="Log out of this account">Logout &raquo;</a></p>
       			<?php else : ?>
       				<p>
       					<input type="text"
       								 name="author"
       								 id="author"
       								 value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>"
       								 size="22"
       								 tabindex="1" />
       						<label for="author"><small>Name <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label>
       				</p>
   
       				<p>
       					<input type="text"
       								 name="email"
       								 id="email"
       								 value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>"
       								 size="22"
       								 tabindex="2" />
       					<label for="email">
       						<small>Mail (will not be published) <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small>
       					</label>
       				</p>
   
       				<p>
       					<input type="text"
       								 name="url"
       								 id="url"
       								 value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>"
       								 size="22"
       								 tabindex="3" />
       					<label for="url"><small>Website</small></label>
       				</p>
   
       			<?php endif; ?>
   
   
   
       			<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>
   
       			<p>                            
       			    <?php if (function_exists('ajax_comment_preview')) ajax_comment_preview('previewbutton'); ?>
       				<input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php _e("Submit Comment"); ?>" />
       				<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
       			</p>
                   <div class="entry"><?php if (function_exists('ajax_comment_preview')) ajax_comment_preview('previewarea'); ?></div>
       			<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>
   
       			</form>
   
       			<?php if (function_exists('show_manual_subscription_form')) show_manual_subscription_form(); ?>
   
       		<?php endif; ?>
       	</div> <!-- center-widget -->
       <?php else : // comments are closed ?>
       	<!-- If comments are closed. -->
       	<div class="center-widget-title"><?php _e('Leave a Reply'); ?></div>
       	<div class="center-widget">
       		<p class="nocomments"><?php _e('Comments are closed.'); ?><p>
       	</div> <!-- center-widget -->
       <?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by [Turk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/turk/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ftheme-comments-help%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-comments-help/#post-16187619)
 * In every year, there are 3 to 4 Major Releases of WordPress.
 * That should give idea that a lot has changed since `1916`.
 * My suggestion would be to start with a new up to date theme.
 * At this moment, there are 10,202 free themes to choose from in the [https://wordpress.org/themes/](https://wordpress.org/themes/)
   directory.
 *  Thread Starter [Turk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/turk/)
 * (@turk)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-comments-help/#post-16187644)
 * Yeah I’m not changing it. I’ll keep trying to fix it myself. It is a minor annoyance
   anyway.

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 * Last reply from: [Turk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/turk/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-comments-help/#post-16187644)
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