Comment form
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Go to Dashboard >> Presentation >> Theme Editor…
Then find and edit the text ‘Leave a Reply’ to whatever you want in your comments file.
In your case I think the line you want to look for and edit will look like this…
<h3 id="respond">Leave a Reply</h3>Any idea what file I can find <h3 id=”respond”>Leave a Reply</h3> in?
I’m not having any luck finding it.
Thank you!Go to Dashboard >> Presentation >> Theme Editor…
It should be in the Comments template file which you can select on the right hand side
I looked there, but that text isn’t anywhere in the comments.php file. (see the entire file code listed below.) Any idear where else to look?
Thank you!
<?php if ( !empty($post->post_password) && $_COOKIE[‘wp-postpass_’ . COOKIEHASH] != $post->post_password) : ?>
<p>Enter your password to view comments.</p>
<?php return; endif; ?><?php if ( $comments ) : ?>
<h3>Comments</h3>
<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?><div class=”comment”>
<p class=”commenticon”>
<?php comment_type(‘Comment’,’Trackback’,’Pingback’); ?> from <?php if (” != get_comment_author_url()) { ?>“><?php comment_author() ?><?php } else { comment_author(); } ?>
<?php edit_comment_link(‘Edit comment’,’ | ‘); ?>
Time: <?php comment_date() ?>, <?php comment_time(); ?></p>
<?php comment_text() ?><?php if ($comment->comment_approved == ‘0’) : ?>
<p>Thanks for your comment! It has been placed in the moderation queue, and if it is approved it will be published here soon!</p>
<?php endif; ?>
</div><?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?><?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
<div id=”commentsection”>
<h3>Write a comment</h3>
<form action=”<?php echo get_settings(‘siteurl’); ?>/wp-comments-post.php” method=”post” id=”commentform”>
<p><label for=”author”>Name:</label>
<input type=”text” name=”author” id=”author” class=”textarea” value=”<?php echo $comment_author; ?>” size=”28″ tabindex=”1″ /><input type=”hidden” name=”comment_post_ID” value=”<?php echo $post->ID; ?>” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”redirect_to” value=”<?php echo wp_specialchars($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’]); ?>” /></p>
<p><label for=”email”>E-mail:</label>
<input type=”text” name=”email” id=”email” value=”<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>” size=”28″ tabindex=”2″ /></p>
<p><label for=”url”>Website:</label>
<input type=”text” name=”url” id=”url” value=”<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>” size=”28″ tabindex=”3″ /></p>
<p><label for=”comment”>Your comment:</label>
<textarea name=”comment” id=”comment” cols=”66″ rows=”7″ tabindex=”4″></textarea></p>
<p><?php do_action(‘comment_toolbar’, ‘comment’); ?></p>
<p><input name=”submit” id=”submit” type=”submit” tabindex=”5″ value=”Submit” /></p>
<?php do_action(‘comment_form’, $post->ID); ?></form>
</div><?php else : // Comments are closed ?>
<?php endif; ?>Its in comments.php regardless. To go much further we need a link.
hmmm….in the code you posted above…the relevant bit to edit seems to be <h3>Write a comment</h3>
Don’t know why it says that though because looking at your page source it should currently be saying ‘Leave a reply’.
Are you sure that the code you posted above is directly from your theme editor?
Anyhow you need to change that text inside the <h3> tag
Quite. π
I’d like to change it to say Respond to {post title}. Our comments get spammed on eDelegate.com and I heard that they won’t find your site if the spammailer searches for Leave a Reply they won’t find it. Is this true? Is there any other way to avoid this spam in comments? I have the api enabled to control it but I still have to go in and moderate hundreds of posts.
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(@chroniclet)
18 years, 10 months ago
I would like to change the text at the top of the comment form from: Leave a Reply to something like: Comment on this article
Can you please tell how to make this change?
Thank you!