Title: Comments plugin – where to start?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Comments plugin – where to start?

 *  [tekknoir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tekknoir/)
 * (@tekknoir)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-plugin-where-to-start/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m pretty new to WordPress, but I’ve been developing Joomla extensions for some
   time, so I’m not a complete stranger to PHP and using other APIs, I’m just a 
   bit lost on where to start with WordPress extensions XD
 * I need to write a comments component for my employers, or modify the existing
   one. I need to add 3 custom fields to what is already there:
    We want to know
   the job title and organisation of the people posting comments, and provide an
   option to remain anonymous.
 * We want the job title and organisation fields to be mandatory, and we want it
   so that if you tick the anonymity checkbox, then your name does not appear on
   the site. This way we can still gather information for internal purposes, and
   provide the option for commentators to hide their identity to other users.
 * I think it should be pretty straightforward, but again I’m not sure how it all
   works. I need to find out things like SQL injection sanitisation methods (if 
   any are built in and how to call them, or if I need to write my own), general
   structure of an extension, and if there are any special database interaction 
   functions.
 * If anyone can point me in the right direction, that would be very much appreciated,
   thank you ^_^

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