Liking or Commenting on Blog posts.
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Unable to Like or post comments in WordPress any longer. Why? I used to be able to do so.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi,
What happens when you attempt to Like or Comment on a post? Are there any error messages?
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“Like’ flashes a window up in the upper left quadrant of my screen — it disappears befire I can read it.
Trying to comment generates the following: ‘’Sorry, this comment could not be posted.”
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Are you logged in when you make these attempts? If so, then is it a WordPress.com account rather than a WordPress.org account?
I’ll flag the topic for staff attention. Staff will respond here.
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Thanks. In answer to your question, I’ve tried it while logged in to WordPress and not. I even contacted the Blog owner to see if he’d done something to squelch comments or to isolate me personally. He said “no way.”
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Hi @massugu, are you able to like or comment on other blogs? You’d be welcome to try here:
If you have the same issue there, let us know.
If that site works, please send a link to the site you can no longer comment on. We’ll check it out and point you in the right direction for support.
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Hmm, your blog allowed me to ‘Like’ it. The site url is https://retrieverman.net. The blogger is Scottie Westfall.
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Thanks. I was able to “like” a post on the blog. So I don’t think it’s an issue with the blog, and it seems it’s not an issue with your account, either.
Likes are harder to troubleshoot, so can we start with comments and see if the likes issue gets cleared up in the process?
Could you possibly get a screenshot of the “Sorry, this comment could not be posted” message you received? You can upload it to https://wordpress.com/media
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Hi there,
Can you please clear your browser’s cache and cookies and try again?
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Yep it worked. But since I regularly clear my history buffer (I do this at least once a month for a number of reasons) and have cross-site cookies turned off, it shouldn’t have mattered.
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Depending on the browser, the lack of cross-site cookies is the problem.
Firefox and Safari in particular won’t allow actions that use the WordPress.com cookie on a site that does not have
wordpress.comin the domain name, such as yours.At the moment, we don’t have a way around this.
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