Movable Type Knowledge Base: Comment Counts Do Not Increase

Question

Someone posted a comment to my site, but the comment count for the entry did not increase.

Answer

First, Rebuild Site to see if the comment count updates to show the correct count.

If it does, check to see if you have background tasks enabled in mt-config.cgi¹:

LaunchBackgroundTasks 1

and if so, try disabling them instead:

LaunchBackgroundTasks 0

(Alternatively, if you have background tasks disabled, try turning them on.)

If comment counts do not update even after a rebuild (and the rebuilds themselves are not failing for other reasons), try the solution in Templates not rebuilding after minor changes.

If comment counts still do not increase, there may be an issue with your database. If you're using the MySQL database option, try running a REPAIR command on your database tables, using a tool such as phpMyAdmin or from the command line.

¹ In versions prior to 3.2, the configuration file is named mt.cfg.

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