Title: Editing "Submit Comment"
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Editing "Submit Comment"

 *  [Exoclyps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/exoclyps/)
 * (@exoclyps)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-submit-comment/)
 * Hello there!
 * I’m Exoclyps and recently started to make my own blog. Haven’t gotten far and
   got stuck at refining parts around the “Submit Comment” area.
 * [http://www.heartofphoto.com](http://www.heartofphoto.com) is the url.
 * What I was trying to do is move the “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail”
   thingy to a better location.
 * I did this buy trying to edit the “legacy.comments.php” file:
 *     ```
       <p style="padding:5px 0px 10px 0px;"><textarea name="comment" id="comment" style="width:97%;" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>
   
       <?php if (function_exists('show_subscription_checkbox')) { ?>
       <p style="padding:5px 0px 10px 0px;"><?php show_subscription_checkbox(); ?></p>
       <?php } ?>
   
       <p style="padding:10px 0px 10px 0px;"><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" onmouseover="style.cursor='pointer'" />
       <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
       </p>
       <?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>
   
       </form>
       ```
   
 * to
 *     ```
       <p style="padding:5px 0px 10px 0px;"><textarea name="comment" id="comment" style="width:97%;" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>
   
       <p style="padding:10px 0px 10px 0px;"><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" onmouseover="style.cursor='pointer'" />
       <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
       </p>
       <?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>
   
       <?php if (function_exists('show_subscription_checkbox')) { ?>
       <p style="padding:5px 0px 10px 0px;"><?php show_subscription_checkbox(); ?></p>
       <?php } ?>
   
       </form>
       ```
   
 * But there just won’t display any difference on the page. What am I doing wrong?
 * I even tried adding some random letters after the “form” without any change on
   the website.

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-submit-comment/#post-1715429)
 * review:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Commenting_Code](http://codex.wordpress.org/Commenting_Code)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_comments](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_comments)
   [http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-theme-tip-the-comment-form/](http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-theme-tip-the-comment-form/)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comments_popup_link](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comments_popup_link)
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-submit-comment/#post-1715438)
 * as you may have found out by now, legacy.comments.php is not used by the theme
   to do the comment stuff.
 * have a look into comments.php, and make your edits there.
 * or try and rename comments.php to old.comments.php;
    and then rename legacy.comments.
   php to comments.php; that might work.

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 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-submit-comment/#post-1715438)
 * Status: not resolved

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