Hello,
I understand where you are coming from. I am new to WordPress myself. Here are a few tutorials I found. Not sure how good they are. Another thing you could do is look for a free WP template close to what you are designing and download it. It will give you a comments.php page to look at.
If you don’t already have this http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development is a good resource too.
This one supplies you with one that you says you can use & just drop your theme into it.
http://www.christianmontoya.com/2006/10/15/full-featured-commentsphp-template-for-wordpress/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpUJ8g5Kafw
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/unraveling-the-secrets-of-wordpress-commentsphp-file/
http://199.47.222.65/~wpgaraje/tips/get-to-know-every-line-of-your-commentsphp-wordpress-theme-file/
Hope that helps.
(@hellodrifter)
14 years, 10 months ago
‘ello wordpress world,
I am part way through making my first comments.php template and am having trouble. I currently have the style of the form complete and it looks fine in my browser, but what I am struggling with is creating a functional comments template using PHP. I am no PHP programmer.
I am primarily focusing on creating a functional comments form before I move on to the rest of the template.
Could someone point me towards a beginner/intermediate level tutorial on how to get the PHP to do what you want in the comments template? I’d especially appreciate one that breaks down the main functions with line by line analysis of the source code.
Any and all other help/advice/tips are greatly appreciated, I feel like I’ve hit a brick wall. >.<