Title: Comment System Replacement
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comment System Replacement

 *  [Xander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xander/)
 * (@xander)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-system-replacement/)
 * One of the very last things I am looking into before I go and make my site public
   is the commenting system. Imagine my surprise when I go to test it out and find
   that if any of the info isn’t correct, wordpress spits out a die() with a line
   of text on a blank screen.
 * What the hell? The code:
 * if ( get_settings(‘require_name_email’) && !$user_ID ) {
    if ( 6 > strlen($comment_author_email)
   || ” == $comment_author ) die( __(‘Error: please fill the required fields (name,
   email).’) ); elseif ( !is_email($comment_author_email)) die( __(‘Error: please
   enter a valid email address.’) ); }
 * Is this for real!? I thought this must be a joke, but then I tried commenting
   on a few blogs people had posted in the Your WordPress section and, sure enough…
   am I alone in thinking this is rather shoddy?
 * I’m wondering if there are any wholesale replacements of the whole system, since
   this seems like bunk.

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-system-replacement/#post-350441)
 * well its not too stylish, obviously 😛 however i think the majority of us think
   that its trivial to worry about what people see that cannot follow directions
   😉 (least i dont)
 * I took to editing a great deal of the little details on my own site. Yes, I was
   aware of that, and yes I left it as is. I had bigger fish to fry though I guess.
 * Noticing that you put this in the plugins and hacks area though — Im curious,
   you do realize that a full-scale overhaul isnt neccessary to spruce that up, 
   right?
 *  [Phunky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phunky/)
 * (@phunky)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-system-replacement/#post-350442)
 * Yeah, its not really much work to change it.
 * Replace die() with break; and add a nice bit to the template 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Xander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xander/)
 * (@xander)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-system-replacement/#post-350736)
 * It might not be much work, but it still seems bizarre that such a thing would
   be left out of something that is supposedly “state of the art”… error handling
   is a very basic part of user interface design, and in this respect it’s as if
   whoever was coding this decided not to bother.
 * Ah well, I’ll sort it out… just another one of many fixes I have to do before
   I can go public.

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Xander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xander/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-system-replacement/#post-350736)
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