What's wrong? Posts won't show and more

[Audun MB+ 17]

On of my category pages shows up blank, while others are showing up just as they should. Somethings wrong with all posts in this category. They have for some reason been formatted to use the new Post Format "Aside". I had to switch theme to put them back to standard, but there's still something wrong with them as they won't show. Then some posts will show the comment fields, while others wont. Something must have gone wrong during an update, but is there a way to fix this?

[Audun MB+ 17]

Weird! It seems that having a category with the permalink 'a' doesn't work for some reason. Changing the permalink to something else, while keeping the name seems to work. Now I only got trouble with why the comments aren't showing on some posts.

[cmunns 16]

Looks like if there are no comments it doesn't show. You use disqus but i still think the comments section needs to be active AND you need to turn on comments via WP

[Audun MB+ 17]

This post has a comment section, this one has not. Neither of them has any comments. Comments are turned on in WP and I placed the comments section in the Single Post Page template. Deactivating Disqus to use the WP comments system makes no difference. I guess something must have gone wrong when I updated, unfortunelately I don't have a backup. Is it possible that "hide comments" checkbox somehow has been ticked off in the datebase for some posts (overriding the visible settings)? Or that the new Post Formats-thing causes this in some way? Is there any way to check this in the database?

[Kate 3]

Hi Audun, For the second link, the section for the comments is actually being generated in the HTML. But, it's showing that comments are closed. Are you able to provide a screenshot of that page's post edit screen? (Including the part where the "Enable Comments" checkbox is, please?)

[Audun MB+ 17]

Screenshots: Don't know it it's any help? It might be that some default settings has closed comments older than XX on these post. Is there a way to reopen them?

[catrina 103]

Can you take a screenshot of the "Discussion" section in the post editor?

[Audun MB+ 17]

Catrina: I've checked the settings in the discussion tab already. Nothing there to indicate that this should be an issue, and changing them doesn't fix the issue. I'm fairly certain that this is only about comments being closed for the posts in question. I found a SQL command to reopen them, but I am not certain that this is the best way?

	UPDATE posts p SET comment_status = 'closed', ping_status = 'closed' WHERE comment_status = 'open';

If I am going to use this command, how do I limit it to only the tables with the prefix for this installation (I'm running several installations of Wordpress from the same database)?

[Kate 3]

Hi Audun, If you're able to include the comments section in a screenshot, that would be great. I'm actually not even seeing it appear on the page. You can make it appear via "Screen Options" at the top of the page.

[Audun MB+ 17]

Thanks Kate. I wasn't aware of the possibility of showing the comments section with the Screen options, I was even aware that it existed since it didn't show by default. Toggling "Allow comments" in the comments section fixes the issue.

[Kate 3]

Hi Audun, No problem... happy to help