It looks as if WordPress has put me on the naughty step again, for reasons best known to them.
On some blogs I follow, my comments are coming up as ‘Anonymous’. On some others, I am being asked to ‘Fill in required fields’. But there are no required fields to fill in, so my comment will not appear. This is happening on a few blogs at the moment, but may well spread. As we all know from experience.
So if you spot one of my ‘Likes’ on your blog post, but no comment, at least you know I tried.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I think at WP.com they have a new kindergarten. Since some weeks on some blog i have to re-login by every visit, and on other blogs i can’t give a like. xx Michael
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They mess around far too much at WordPress, Michael.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hi, Pete! That’s true, and the new way bringing the advertisments on the pages is something horrible. On some blogs you have to scroll just a mile. 😉 Best wishes, Michael
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People are having the same problem commenting on my blog. I assumed it was a recent update I had applied and changed the theme to a different one, but that didn’t seem to help. Now, I wonder if it is a more general problem and not specific to my blog. As I don’t have time to do anything this week, I’ll wait and see. But I have lost all patience with this now.
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It seems to be mainly affecting self-hosted blogs, Olga. Different browsers (like Safari and Firefox) require ‘cross-tracking’ to be allowed, or WordPress cannot recognise some blogs. It is also happening on some WP blogs, where we are coming up as Anonymous every time we comment.
Best wishes, Pete.
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If it’s not one thing it’s another lately my spam has been quiet for the last 3 days but based on previous happenings it will explode again very soon into the hundreds…x
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I am still deleting almost 100 Spam and Trash comments every day, Carol.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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You are not alone. I can’t comment at half the blogs I visit this week. I’ve also seen a ton of anyonynous names in those whose replies came through. WP gremlins at work big time! 🙂
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Yes, if you see Pit’s link below, it may be to do with ‘Cross tracking’, Debby.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes, I heard about that from another blogger. Thanks Pete 🙂
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I’ve had the same issue on blogs I have always responded to and my comment ends up in their spam or anonymous? Thank God I’m not the only one but it’s still frustrating. Hugs, C
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It seems to be getting worse this week, Cheryl.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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It’s the WP gremlins. Arg! 😦 xx
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Here’s something that might – or might not – help:
https://pitsfritztownnews.wpcomstaging.com/2022/08/22/wordpress-problems-take-2/
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Thanks, Pit. That could well be why most of the problems i am having are with self-hosted sites I follow.
Best wishes, Pete.
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You’re welcome, Pete. According to what I read on another blog [https://tailsaroundtheranch.blog/2022/08/23/wordpress-issues/} the so-called “happiness engineers} are working on it. But I have my doubts because – considering the exchange presented in that blog – this “happiness engineers” didn’t grasp the fact that the problem doesn’t lie with our own blogs only but with blogs we visit, too.
Let’s hope WP will get over that glitch without at the same time creating another one – at which they seem to be very adept.
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I’m experiencing many of the same things. It’s interesting that some of my comments are listed as “anonymous” when half of the identities on some blogs come through. I wonder if it’s more prone to happen with certain themes.
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My gut feeling is that these things happen when WordPress is making changes in the background, Pete.
Best wishes, Pete.
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So many glitches. I haven’t yet recovered my other blog.
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I wonder what they are up to, Arlene? Probably about to introduce another new feature.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Bummer, Pete. It’s always something. Hope they get it fixed soon. In the meantime, I’m getting an inordinate number of Spam comments. And when I tried to send some directly to ‘Trash’ from discussion settings, too many real ones ended up there too, so I gave that up.
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Yes, too many genuine comments keep being ‘caught’, I agree.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I would guess the WP employees keep messing with things to justify continuing employment to fix the bugs. Or they are all related to the folks in your licensing bureau and are just messing with you. Warmest regards, Theo
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I might have suspected DVLA involvement, but it is affecting a lot of people today, Theo. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Pete, I have encountered that problem recently, and really haven’t been able to determine a “pattern.” It may be specific WordPress website themes, but I’m not sure. I can leave likes on blog posts, and I can leave comments if I back out and use the WordPress reader instead of being on the actual site. I have also had the issue of not being able to leave likes on comments on certain sites also. You are not alone!
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Thanks, Bruce. It does seem that The Reader is far more stable. I have had to resort to using that earlier today.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Glad you were able to ditch the glitch.
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Only by using The Reader, which is not something I ever do normally.
Best wishes, Pete.
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This seems to be a problem affecting most WordPress.com blogs and also WordPress.org blogs using the WordPress.com (Jetpack) commenting system. I’ve found that by clicking “change” and manually filling in email, name, website, the comment will show properly, not as anonymous. Hope the powers that be get it resolved, soon!
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Thanks, Debbie. I resolved it earlier by commenting from The Reader. That seemed to be the only way to get past the issue.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Same here, Pete, with comments on my owen blog and my comments on other blogs: it’s a nuisance.
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The tip I got about using the Reader to comment seems to have worked, Pit.
Best wishes, Pete.
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With me it’s inconsistent, just to keep me muddled.
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Using The Reader finally allowed me to comment, but I so rarely even think of The Reader I had to be prompted by a tip from a blogger.
Best wishes, Pete.
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That is what I have resorted to as well (reader)
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I’ve been getting a ton of Anonymous posts, but they all sound like voices I know, mostly!
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I often find it quite easy to work out who ‘Anonymous’ is too, Dorothy. People seem to have a certain style in the way they leave comments.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m getting the ‘error, fill in the required fields’ glitch as well.
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Try commenting via The Reader, Liz. I did that this morning, and it worked.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thank you for the suggestion, Pete.
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It seems to be working for many of us, Liz.
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This happens to me when I seem to be ‘signed out’ of WordPress although I am not. I think I discovered it had to do with cross-site tracking being turned off in my browser settings.
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Thanks for the information, Maggie. I never sign out, and do not have anything like that in my browser settings. That’s why I have supposed it to be a glitch.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’ve encountered both issues, but not recently. Must be your turn. Frustrating.
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Yes, it does seem to come in ‘turns’, Peggy.
Best wishes, Pete.
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WP is a pain in the butt…..they do it to themselves. chuq
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I am sure they are fiddling with something, and this is the fallout from it.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Every time WP fiddles they create more problems they need to fix….makes little sense to me but I am old…LOL chuq
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Pete, I started getting that “fill in the blanks” stuff as well, so I been to go to the Reader and click on the stories from there – as I am doing right now – and it’s all good…not sure what the glitch is but boy is it annoying!
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Thanks, John. I will have to start viewing posts through The Reader until this calms down.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Same thing happened to me when I tried to comment but I did the same as Fragglerocking and used the Reader to comment instead.
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Thanks, Christina. That worked for me earlier.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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I comment here with no trouble, but I am finding more and more of those ‘error, fill in the required fields’ notices.
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When you get those, go to The Reader instead, and you should be able to comment from there, GP. Fraggle gave me that tip this morning, and it worked well.
Best wishes, Pete.
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That’s where I was, so maybe the problem is getting worse.
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Then it must be, GP.
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Sometimes caused by pop ups that don’t appear on screen. But you only use your laptop don’t you?
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I only use a PC, Jude. Fraggle gave me the tip of commenting through The Reader, and that seems to work.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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I have checked my spam and trash folders and there are none of your comments in either of those so you seem to be alright with my blog so far.
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I try not to use the fill in the fields feature at all …my comments are open to anyone without moderation … tell me you are not having this problem with Liming’s Links. I have been having it with In Saner Thought recently. But I don’t mind because when I have to fill this thing in, I can do it with a single entry to the first item required. I have my super computer main frame set up to “Fill in” things where information is requested. So if I just enter the first letter of my first name into one of these things, it fills in all the rest of it for me.
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I am coming up as ‘Anonymous’ on your blog, John. But I don’t have to fill in any boxes.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Neither of the following are enabled on my settings …Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
Users must be registered and logged in to comment
Nobody should be required to fill out anything in order to comment on my blog and nothing is moderated. I do not know why you are appearing as anonymous.
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Probably just a glitch, John. It might settle down.
Best wishes, Pete.
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https://wordpress.com/help/contact
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I have seen myself as ‘Anonymous’ on your blog, John.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I do not know how that happens. All I know is that I am receiving your comments and that is what is important to me.
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Pete I hope this comes through as I am doing this blind on my own. I have nowhere where I am but it tells me I am replying to you. Your comments are coming through to me ok. But I am having exactly the same problem as you. Even filling stuff in it still will not allow my comment on some blogs althoug mostly hubbby does it for me. We are having problems too though
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I think this is you, Lorraine? I could be wrong. Your comment has come through as Anonymous. I suggest using the Reader function to comment, a tip I got this morning from someone. I tried commenting from the Reader, and it worked.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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WP playing silly buggers again!
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After reading Fraggle’s tip, I was able to comment through The Reader, Jack. I suspect WP is fiddling behind the scenes again though.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I got the ‘fill in the fields’ yesterday on a couple of blogs, but used the reader to comment instead. That always seems to work.
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Thanks, I will have to try that.
Best wishes, Pete.
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That worked on one of them! 🙂
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wp gremlins need to get a new hobby
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I think they realised that had given me a break for far too long, Beth.
Best wishes, Pete.
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