“Hate” is such a strong word
Weary of having a broken comments form, I dug into the problem tonight. After some thrashing about in the PHP, I started doing some searching. First I tried searching on the WordPress Support site. That was a total fiasco. It’s really hard to find anything in that mess.
So I turned to Yahoo! Search. Thankfully, my bretheren on the search team didn’t let me down. The second result turned up this gem. As far as I can tell, a TON of people have had this problem. It turns out, at some point WordPress kindly created a user for me with no username and no password. So when people were seeing the “Logged in as . Logout” text in my comments form, they really were logged in as someone. I have no idea how that account got there and I don’t see any way of being able to remove it. But the WordPress forum document indicated I could make the problem go away by renaming the user and changing their password.
Miracle of miracles, IT WORKED! I was able to successfully submit a comment while not logged in as myself (an anonymous comment) and I was able to submit a comment while logged in as myself. If you happen to notice something not working with the comments, drop me mail (ryan AT unclehulka.com).
I really hate the bullshit WordPress makes you go through sometimes. The upgrade path totally sucks, which I constantly complain about, and now I’ve got to go digging because at some point it added an empty user to my blog that I now can’t remove (though I can rename it).
In related news, I’m making a new voodoo doll.
