I am running into this problem too.
The tutorial for <?php comment_form(); ?> doesn’t make it clear what you have to do with $fields and apply_filters() to change the default HTML for the contact form:
<?php
$fields = array(
'author' => '<p class="comment-form-author">' . '<label for="author">' . __( 'Name' ) . '</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' ) . '</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>',
'url' => '<p class="comment-form-url"><label for="url">' . __( 'Website' ) . '</label>' .
'<input id="url" name="url" type="text" value="' . esc_attr( $commenter['comment_author_url'] ) . '" size="30" /></p>',
); ?>
Any help?
Yes I fixed it in the end. The guy who wrote this tutorial cleared things up for me in the comments section:
http://tinyurl.com/2csxmoo
You need to call the comment form like this instead:
comment_form(array('id_form' => 'frm-comment', 'title_reply' => 'Leave a Comment Yourself', 'fields' => $fields));
(@pealo86)
13 years, 2 months ago
I have been using the comment_form() tag in order to customise my comments form, however I cannot seem to modify the fields.
Here is the code I have so far:
The title and form ID change fine, but the fields do not. In fact, when I look at my form the only thing I see above the textarea element is just some text saying ‘Array’.
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
I think I need this line of code somewhere, but am unsure where to put it:
apply_filters( 'comment_form_default_fields', $fields )I have tried it in both my comments.php and functions.php files but neither appear to work.
If anyone has any advice that would be great 😀