Comments Containing URLs and Over a Certain Length Not Showing Up in Wordpress
Since upgrading to Wordpress 2.5 we’ve had some issues with certain comments not showing up on the site. These comments exist in the database, they can be edited, and their author details appear, but the actual comment text doesn’t appear on the site.
I’ve tried to troubleshoot this a few times - thinking it may be a mod_security problem, or perhaps just a weird 2.5.1 bug.
Another commenter had his comment eaten tonight, so I went through another round of searching, and eventually discovered this thread on the Wordpress forums.
The answer, he is right down the bottom there: “… a plugin designed to remove the rel=”nofollow” attribute”. A.K.A. Dofollow.
So it seems that Dofollow with WP2.5 breaks things, and causes comments to disappear. Very unfortunate.
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Leave a CommentMichael Hampton
That’s OK, since there are several other plugins which do the same thing as Dofollow.
June 29, 2008 @ 8:01 am
Mick
We had the same issue but upgrading to Wordpress 2.6.1 resolved it, did you tried that?
August 19, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
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