Title: adding comments
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# adding comments

 *  [bigdavejonnyt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigdavejonnyt/)
 * (@bigdavejonnyt)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-2/)
 * Just writing my own template – got comments working, but in testing noticed that
   if you leave the comments field blank and hit submit, you get dumped out to a
   very unfriendly message –
 * ‘Error: please type a comment.’
 * Driven from the page wp-comments-post.php in the wp root directory. Is there 
   a good or perhaps, a proper, way to easily format this page so it stays true 
   to the template it’s sat in.
 * I could hack around for hours, or I could just ask, so…..
 * ….I’m just asking!
 * I remain etc….
 * yours
 * bdjt

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 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-comments-2/#post-362425)
 * This is something I’ve tried to get changed, but my patch has been languishing
   [here](http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1786).
 * If you don’t want to change wp-comments-post.php, you might try adding to the‘
   init’ action hook a function that checks to see if comment fields have been posted,
   then responds when one is blank.

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