I figured it out myself. I just added in some arguments to the function call:
<?php
comment_form(
array(
'fields' => array(
'author' => '<p class="comment-form-author">' . '<label for="author">' . __( 'Name' ) . '</label> ' . ( $req ? '<span class="required">*</span>' : '' ) .
'<br />
<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>' : '' ) .
'<br />
<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>' .
'<br />
<input id="url" name="url" type="text" value="' . esc_attr( $commenter['comment_author_url'] ) . '" size="30" /></p>',
)
)
);
?>
(@skunkbad)
13 years, 7 months ago
I’ve edited /wp-includes/comments-template.php so that I have some br tags between the form labels and the input elements, but I know this is wrong because it should be somewhere in the theme files. How would I properly customize/extend the comments_form function? Do I just copy and paste the comments form function to my functions.php file, and make my changes there?