WordPress - User Comments - Parent / Nested Answer

I am creating a custom WordPress theme and edited comments.php, but I cannot get comments to save as a response to another comment. I managed to show the parent ID of the comment so that it appears as a hidden value in the source code, but it does not save it accordingly in the database (instead, it always saves comment_parent as 0). In addition, the commenter's IP address is not saved for any reason (comment_author_IP is displayed as ":: 1"). Here is the code that I still have:

<?php if ( post_password_required() ) return; ?> <div id="comments" class="comments-area"> <?php // You can start editing here -- including this comment! $fields = array( 'author' => '<p class="comment-form-author"><label for="author">' . __( 'Name', 'domainreference' ) . '</label> ' . ( $req ? '<span class="required">*</span>' : '' ) . '<input id="author" name="author" type="text" value="' . esc_attr( $commenter['comment_author'] ) . '" size="30"' . $aria_req . ' /></p>', 'email' => '<p class="comment-form-email"><label for="email">' . __( 'Email', 'domainreference' ) . '</label> ' . ( $req ? '<span class="required">*</span>' : '' ) . '<input id="email" name="email" type="text" value="' . esc_attr( $commenter['comment_author_email'] ) . '" size="30"' . $aria_req . ' /></p>' ); $defaults = array( 'fields' => apply_filters( 'comment_form_default_fields', $fields ), 'comment_field' => '<p class="comment-form-comment"><label for="comment">' . _x( 'Comment', 'noun' ) . '</label><textarea id="comment" name="comment" cols="45" rows="8" aria-required="true"></textarea></p><p class="comment-form-math"><label for="math">' . __( 'five plus two', 'domainreference' ) . '</label> ' . ( $req ? '<span class="required">*</span>' : '' ) . '<input id="math" name="math" type="text" value="' . esc_attr( $commenter['math'] ) . '" size="30"' . $aria_req . ' /></p></p><input type=\'hidden\' name=\'comment_post_ID\' value=\'\' id=\'comment_post_ID\' /><input type=\'hidden\' name=\'comment_parent\' id=\'comment_parent\' value=\''.$comment_parent.'\' />', 'must_log_in' => '<p class="must-log-in">' . sprintf( __( 'You must be <a href="%s">logged in</a> to post a comment.' ), wp_login_url( apply_filters( 'the_permalink', get_permalink( ) ) ) ) . '</p>', 'logged_in_as' => '<p class="logged-in-as">' . sprintf( __( 'Logged in as <a href="%1$s">%2$s</a>. <a href="%3$s" title="Log out of this account">Log out?</a>' ), admin_url( 'profile.php' ), $user_identity, wp_logout_url( apply_filters( 'the_permalink', get_permalink( ) ) ) ) . '</p>', 'comment_notes_before' => '<p class="comment-notes">' . __( 'Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *' ) . ( $req ? $required_text : '' ) . '</p>', 'comment_notes_after' => '', 'id_submit' => 'submit', 'title_reply' => __( 'Leave a Reply' ), 'title_reply_to' => __( 'Leave a Reply to %s' ), 'comment_form_title' => __( 'Leave a Reply', 'Leave a Reply to %s' ), 'cancel_reply_link' => __( 'Cancel reply' ), 'label_submit' => __( 'Post Comment' ) ); comment_form($defaults); ?> </div><!-- #comments .comments-area --> 
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It looks like this thread of support may be related to this issue. An incorrect comment_parent field (and possibly also a comment_post_ID field exception) can solve the problem with the parent ID, because WordPress automatically adds these hidden fields.

As for the IP anomaly, ::1 is the IPv6 equivalent for 127.0.0.1 ( localhost ), which is your IP address if you have WordPress installed locally.

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