Title: Comment form
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comment form

 *  [chroniclet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chroniclet/)
 * (@chroniclet)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-2-2/)
 * 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!

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 *  [athique](https://wordpress.org/support/users/athique/)
 * (@athique)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-2-2/#post-592203)
 * 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>`
 *  Thread Starter [chroniclet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chroniclet/)
 * (@chroniclet)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-2-2/#post-592443)
 * 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!
 *  [athique](https://wordpress.org/support/users/athique/)
 * (@athique)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-2-2/#post-592522)
 * Go to Dashboard >> Presentation >> Theme Editor…
 * It should be in the Comments template file which you can select on the right 
   hand side
 *  Thread Starter [chroniclet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chroniclet/)
 * (@chroniclet)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-2-2/#post-592535)
 * 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; ?>
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-2-2/#post-592536)
 * Its in comments.php regardless. To go much further we need a link.
 *  [athique](https://wordpress.org/support/users/athique/)
 * (@athique)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-2-2/#post-592537)
 * 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
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-2-2/#post-592539)
 * Quite. 🙂
 *  [jplancaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jplancaster/)
 * (@jplancaster)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-2-2/#post-592592)
 * I’d like to change it to say Respond to {post title}. Our comments get spammed
   on [eDelegate.com](http://www.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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