Title: default comments
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# default comments

 *  [olliew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olliew/)
 * (@olliew)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-comments/)
 * If I am building a theme and use comments_template() having not made a comments.
   php, what is the default comments template that is called?

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-comments/#post-7397875)
 * it is likely:
 * **/wp-includes/theme-compat/comments.php**
 * you can also see this in [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/comments_template/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/comments_template/)
   in the source code of `comments_template()`
 *  Thread Starter [olliew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/olliew/)
 * (@olliew)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-comments/#post-7398001)
 * Is it considered bad to not include a comment.php file if you are happy with 
   the default?
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-comments/#post-7398018)
 * > Is it considered bad to not include a comment.php file
 * possibly, because you are creating problem for the future:
 * from the code of `comments_template()`:
 * > else // Backward compat code will be removed in a future release
   >  require( 
   > ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/theme-compat/comments.php’);

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-comments/#post-7398018)
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