Title: Creating a Comments list from scratch?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Creating a Comments list from scratch?

 *  Resolved [neoricen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neoricen/)
 * (@neoricen)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-comments-list-from-scratch/)
 * For my page I have set it up so the story will appear in one column and comments
   will be listed in another with a comment form underneath.
 * Basically I wish to know how to make a ‘Comments Loop’ to list the comments the
   same way you would posts. I haven’t had much luck looking the the WP Docs for
   help, it seems comments need to be in a list, do they have to be? I have the 
   comments title tag, author tag and text tag I just don’t know how to put them
   in to the loop and I want to start from scratch, what do I need to make this 
   happen?

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 *  Thread Starter [neoricen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neoricen/)
 * (@neoricen)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-comments-list-from-scratch/#post-415993)
 * Bump, sorry but I’d really like some help with this.
 *  [silpstream](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silpstream/)
 * (@silpstream)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-comments-list-from-scratch/#post-415994)
 * If you use the template comments.php that is provided with the default theme,
   you should be able to hack it to do what you want. That’s what I did for my site
   [http://www.silpstream.com/](http://www.silpstream.com/). I didn’t like the lists
   either.
 * Just replace the ‘list’ tags with the tags you want and include the comments 
   template into the column that you want them to show up on.
 * You can use nearly any of the tags from [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/comment_text](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/comment_text)
   within the comment loop ‘foreach ($comments as $comment) :’

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