Wordpress problem (self hosted)

[ssantos]

Getting "Posts Not Found Sorry, no posts matched your criteria" when you try to post a comment. Also the Comment section in the Dashboard shows no comments at all even though Akistmet claims to have filtered about 20 posts. This blog was moved recently from a sub directory to the root folder. I used the "Velvet Blues Update URLs" plugin and that appeared to change all the URLS rather nicely. (Then deactivated it) No broken links or images. It has also been upgraded to the latest version.  (This is my client's blog)

I have tried re-setting the permalinks. When I go back to the default I just get a blank page when I submit a comment. Permalinks are confusing to me as they can be set one way in the Permalink section (Admin) and another way in the Edit Page section. If these do not match exactly what happens?

Other Plugins in use:
Akismet
Contact Form 7
Google Analytics for WordPress
Page Links To
WordPress Database Backup

(I have deactivated all of the above and re-tested with no improvement.)

I have this question posted on wordpress.org, twice, and I'm getting no response.

Blog URL:
http://alohilanidesigns.com

Thanks,
Sue

[Ray Botelho]

First, can we assume that the comment feature stopped working after the blog was moved and Wordpress was updated?

Second, can we assume that it broke after the move and the update was done after that, in an attempt to restore proper operation?  And that nothing else changed after the update?

(Third, I have only a little WP dirt under my nails, so will the real Wordpress experts please stand up.)

Anyway, just a wild guess - permalinks involve using an .htaccess file (not always visible in FTP progs) - did that get moved with everything else?

-R-

[ssantos]

I am not sure when the problem started to occur since I did not test the comments after the move, or before. My client was also moving her posts around when she was working on it. Changing pages to categories and categories to pages. Basically I think she cut and pasted that stuff. I emptied the trash for the pages and categories but that did not help.

No the update had nothing to do with the comment thing. It needed to be done. I had to manually update the version as it was about 2-3 years old and had no update button. (I inherited this website, it's a long story)

No .htaccess is in place. I just changed the permissions to 666 so that it could be written to by WP, then I reset the permalinks to default, got a blank page as usual after trying to send a comment [for the default setting] and then set it at another setting and I got the same error, "Posts Not Found Sorry, no posts matched your criteria".

My client just told me about this problem last Friday and I hadn't worked on it for about a week prior.

[ssantos]

Update:

After dumping the trash Categories my comments are showing up on the blog but I'm still being sent to an error page. So it's half fixed.

2nd Update:
Now it's not even half working, Darn!

Sue