Title: 'comments_template' does not load the template
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# 'comments_template' does not load the template

 *  [smartucus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smartucus/)
 * (@smartucus)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments_template-does-not-load-the-template/)
 * I recently installed 3.4.2 and my custom comments template is no longer being
   loaded. It was working in prior versions of WordPress (I’m not exactly sure at
   what point this stopped working)
 * My themes page.php has the line:
    <?php comments_template( ‘/commentsGUEST.php’);?
   >
 * But the commentsGUEST.php is not loaded so WordPress defaults to default comments.
   Again, this function was working fine in prior versions of WordPress.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments_template-does-not-load-the-template/#post-3076468)
 * Try renaming commentsGUEST.php to comments.php, use `?php comments_template();?
   >` and see if that works.
 *  Thread Starter [smartucus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smartucus/)
 * (@smartucus)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments_template-does-not-load-the-template/#post-3076721)
 * Great idea BUT my theme uses a different format for comments depending on the
   page they are made from.
 * I need multiple comment templates.

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