After update Comments displayed columns of 10

[Nick Cernak]

Hello,

I recently updated the website http://www.moonaliceposters.com to WordPress 4.7, it uses the Genesis child theme News Pro.

After the update, everything looks good except the Comments section which now displays some of them smashed together, it appears in columns of 10. You can see an example on any blog post including http://www.moonaliceposters.com/11-18-16-sweetwater-music-hall-mill-valley-ca-poster-by-alexandra-fischer/

I suspect a plugin that I used in the past that is no longer being supported might be to blame. I deactivated 'Social' but it did not fix the issue. Per the 'Social' plugin by MailChimp: On Feb. 10, we'll be retiring Social so we can focus on new projects. It will be removed from the WordPress Plugin Directory, and support for the plugin will no longer be available. The plugin link http://mailchimp.com/social-plugin-for-wordpress/ has been taken down so that is a dead end.

Has anyone else had this experience?

Thank you for any assistance.

http://www.moonaliceposters.com/11-18-16-sweetwater-music-hall-mill-valley-ca-poster-by-alexandra-fischer/

[Nick Cernak]

I had an issue with this plugin and theme back in 2014 and found the solution in a saved email and wanted to add it to this since this code was changed in the child theme and might be causing the issue with the comments.

"I wanted to see if these comments were "comments" or "trackbacks" so I left the search terms in place and switched to "comments" only but got nothing back from the search. I thought it was a trackback so...
I switched to view "pings" only and it didn't return anything.

I found this odd and double checked by switching back to all comments again and it gave me all the comments again.

This means that the plugin that added the "comments" either did it incorrectly on accident and didn't specify the type of comment or it did it incorrectly on purpose, by creating it's own "type" of comment.

In the TwentyFourteen theme it works because they don't differentiate between comments and trackbacks. In Genesis we do load comments and trackbacks separately. This means this third comment type or undefined comment type isn't loading.

If the plugin created the comments correctly it wouldn't matter, but they didn't make the comments correctly so it causes problems in themes that do anything other than list the default undifferentiated comments.

Please try adding this code to your child theme functions.php file
remove_action( 'genesis_pings', 'genesis_do_pings' );
add_filter( 'genesis_comment_list_args', 'child_comment_list_args' );
function child_comment_list_args( $args ){
unset( $args['type'] );

return $args;
}

This code will combine all different comment types and makes sure the trackbacks aren't listed twice."

Could the code above that was added to the functions.php be causing this issue?

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