But still I think I have restored the database once and though all the posts were restored it seems like all the comments up to may 2008 is missing.

Is this a known issue in earlier versions?

I've never seen anything like that. And even if the backup were to fail part-way, the tables are backed up in alphabetical order, and wp_comments is first, so if it were truncated, others (like the posts table) wouldn't appear at all.

Sorry my mistake.

Somehow I couldn't see through the date order.

But still I think I have restored the database once and though all the posts were restored it seems like all the comments up to may 2008 is missing.

Is this a known issue in earlier versions?

I just found out that there was some comments missing at some old posts.

I wanted to recreate the comments and turned to my backup-files.

I couldn't find any of them.

Then I looked in my latest backup file and found that only 44 comments had been stored.

The stored comments were from 2008-02-18 to 2008-05-03 but the backup was created at 2009-03-04.

Please help me find out what the problem is. I really don't want to loose any more content.

This is a bad design on the part of the Popularity Content plugin, in my opinion, because it allows a method to be called without first initializing its class. That's why I think action and filter hooks should be assigned when the class initializes.

At any rate, to get around this bug in PC change line 37 of my plugin like so:

add_action('init', array(&$this,'init'),500);

Thanks for the help.

I found another problem. Looks like Comment Preview has some conflicts with Popularity Contest plugin. Whenever I try to post a comment with Comment Preview enabled I get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function record_feedback() on a non-object in /home/.derringer/staska/staska.net/wp-content/plugins/popularity-contest.php on line 1525

And the in the address bar I see the url of the post with #comment-1000 at the end. (I have abou 330 comments in total on my blog)

The comment actually gets posted and when I reload the page, I can see it.

You'll need to edit the comments.php template:

1. Add a preview button where you want it (probably before or after the line that starts <input onclick="if(typeof(onAddComment) == 'function') . . .).

A preview button would look like
<input type="submit" value="Preview" name="preview" id="preview"/>

2. Edit line 33 that starts out $comments = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM . . .
Just comment it out.
( // $comments = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM . . .)

Then edit the plugin file, briansthreadedcomments.php on line 392 so that it looks like the following:

print "<input type='hidden' id='comment_reply_ID' name='comment_reply_ID' value='" . (int) $_POST['comment_reply_ID'] . "' />";

That should make the preview work okay, although the preview won't appear as a threaded comment. I'm sure there's a way to do it, but it would involve some hacking of the threaded comment plugin.

I installed Comments preview and it worked quite well. But after I installed Brian's threaded comments and replaced my comments.php with Brian's, "Preview" button dissapeared.

Is there any way to make your Comments Preview compatible with Brian's threaded comments?

I have updated the plugin, so that now it should work fine with 2.1.x

It must be a change in WP 2.1 because I have 2.1.2 and it has the same error.

Hi,

I\'m trying to use Comments Preview with Wordpress 2.1, but it doesn\'t appear to work. I was using this plugin for 2.0.5 and 2.0.6 with no problems. Once I upgraded to 2.1, it complains about the file pluggable-functions.php missing on line 1240 (as that appears to have been replaced by pluggable.php in 2.1).

If I change it manually, it complains about:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get() in /path/to/wordpress/wp-includes/query.php on line 10

Then again, I see that it works just fine for you :) Any ideas?