Title: Default theme modifying
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Default theme modifying

 *  [afuna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afuna/)
 * (@afuna)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-modifying/)
 * I designed a theme on the background of the default theme
    the problem is the
   comments I wanna move the comment author name, date and time at the end of the
   comment as they are at the beginning .. I tried to do it from comments.php but
   I failed I wanna know how to modify the comments as I want . what codes in what
   files need to be changed to be done. Also I use a translated wordpress version
   and some words I dont like in the comments and as I explained above I cant find
   the files which have to be modified to change the comments author name and the
   comments metatags (as words and as place @ design) Best Regards

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-modifying/#post-1208907)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_comments](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_comments)
 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-modifying/#post-1208915)
 * The following video may help.
 * [link moderated]
 *  Thread Starter [afuna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afuna/)
 * (@afuna)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-modifying/#post-1209048)
 * woow Thanks I didnt think that someone would reply (AS USUAL)
    [@esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
   I read this article carefully, It helped me to do some changes even I thought
   that the change isnt needed to be done every upgrade cos I thought it will be
   from the theme files like all the themes which contain different style of the
   comments which dont change every upgrade .. but I still cant move the comment
   author name, date, time … etc to the end of the comment not in the beginning ..
 * [@figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
    Thanks for your reply
   but this post about changing the index not the comments ..
 * I hope I find any help soon 🙁
 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-modifying/#post-1209050)
 * > Thanks for your reply but this post about changing the index not the comments..
 * Actually it was about teaching you some basics of editing a WP file so hopefully
   you would be able to explore and figure out how to do what you want….teaching
   to fish rather than giving fish, kind of thing 😉
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-theme-modifying/#post-1209064)
 * > but I still cant move the comment author name, date, time … etc to the end 
   > of the comment not in the beginning ..
 * Unless you’re are really, really, good with PHP, XHTML and WP and can create 
   your own custom callback comment function, the short answer is – you can’t change
   the positioning of the comment meta details.
 * I don’t think that kind of major re-positioning is even possible using pure CSS…
   well not in a stable, cross-browser kind of way.
 * I posted the link to wp_list_comments so that you could get an idea of what is
   possible within the confines of that tag. On the plus side, as it’s a relatively
   new tag/function, it may well become more configurable with future versions.
 * Sorry.

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