Liking or Commenting on Blog posts.

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  massugu · Member · May 16, 2019 at 8:18 pm

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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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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jun 3, 2019 at 3:18 am

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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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  massugu · Member · Jun 3, 2019 at 3:24 pm

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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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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jun 3, 2019 at 7:17 pm

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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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  massugu · Member · Jun 3, 2019 at 7:22 pm

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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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  supernovia · Staff · Jun 3, 2019 at 8:14 pm

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  Hi @massugu, are you able to like or comment on other blogs? You’d be welcome to try here:

  https://en.blog.wordpress.com

  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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  massugu · Member · Jun 3, 2019 at 9:03 pm

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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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  supernovia · Staff · Jun 3, 2019 at 9:31 pm

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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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  massugu · Member · Jun 4, 2019 at 10:31 am

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  Done.

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  fstat · Staff · Jun 4, 2019 at 12:11 pm

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  Hi there,

  Can you please clear your browser’s cache and cookies and try again?

  Solve Common Browser Issues

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  massugu · Member · Jun 4, 2019 at 4:04 pm

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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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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 4, 2019 at 5:01 pm

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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.com in the domain name, such as yours.

  At the moment, we don’t have a way around this.