Title: Comment problems with theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Comment problems with theme

 *  Resolved [randomrage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randomrage/)
 * (@randomrage)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-problems-with-theme/)
 * You know, I really like the theme I started out with, but tweaking it has proved
   to be tremendously difficult.
 * I thought everything was great and everything was working the way I wanted it
   too. Until someone left a comment. Silly me, I never actually tested the comments,
   assuming they’d be displayed properly. I’m obviously new at this. Obviously. 
   If someone could take a look at my site and stylesheets and point me towards 
   what I need to edit, I’d very much appreciate it.
 * Here’s [a post at my site with comments](http://randomrage.net/index.php/2008/04/16/mysql-can-kiss-mysqass/#comments).
   This is what I want to do:
    - Fix the comment boxes so the background isn’t white and more in the color 
      scheme of the website
    - Either remove post titles entirely (since it seems it’s generating titles 
      based on the first few words of the comment), OR:
    - Insert a post “title” field that will override that.
 * I’m learning this stuff very slowly, so some expert help would be nice. Thanks
   in advance!

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 *  Thread Starter [randomrage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randomrage/)
 * (@randomrage)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-problems-with-theme/#post-742630)
 * Okay, quick follow up:
    I didn’t check the post in seperate browsers. In IE, 
   the first post looks fine, it looks fantastic and legible, but the second post(
   my follow-up) is white and unreadable. In Opera, where I checked first, both 
   posts are unreadable. This is probably some bad xhtml somewhere, but I really
   have a hard time finding this stuff. Any help will do. Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [randomrage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randomrage/)
 * (@randomrage)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-problems-with-theme/#post-742674)
 * After poking around with CSS validators and trying to feel my way through it,
   I made a few tweaks. Now, comments from normal people appear properly, but I’m
   still having a problem with author comments.
    The proper colors appear briefly
   while the page is loading, but the background turns to white by the time it’s
   finished loading. [Take a look.](http://randomrage.net/index.php/2008/04/16/mysql-can-kiss-mysqass/#comments)
   I’m sure this is some screwy CSS somewhere, but I’m having a hard time finding
   it, mainly because I don’t know what I’m doing. If someone could take a look,
   please. Also, I’m still at a loss for what to do about the comment titles. I’d
   like to lose them entirely, or have a “title” field below the comment registration
   that will take care of it.
 *  Thread Starter [randomrage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randomrage/)
 * (@randomrage)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-problems-with-theme/#post-742699)
 * Okay, I figured it out! The theme I’m using uses multiple CSS stylesheets, and
   there were conflicting instructions. I removed the offending instructions and
   it’s working properly.
 * I also found the “title” command – it calls a function called freshy_get_comment_excerpt()
   to make the text blow up over the post title. So, here’s my question: can someone
   help me put in a “title” form, then replace the comment exerpt command with the
   title text?

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