Title: Editing text problem.
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Editing text problem.

 *  Resolved [raisthlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raisthlin/)
 * (@raisthlin)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-text-problem/)
 * WordPress: 2.7.1
    Theme: Oriental [http://thailande.raisthlin.ca/](http://thailande.raisthlin.ca/)
 * Hi all, im currently translating a theme in french and theres 2 line of text 
   i just cant manage to change.
 * Those lines are the:
 * “Leave a Reply” just before the reply form
 * and
 * the # of “comments” input just before posted comments at the end of each post.
 * Note that i did change those strings and that they work everywhere else. But 
   once you open a post the text is not edited. I used dreamweaver to search for“
   Leave a reply” in every single files and changed them all. Why isnt it working?
 * Any help much appreciated

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 *  [InterTrade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intertrade/)
 * (@intertrade)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-text-problem/#post-1024324)
 * You may need to do like I have to do. For some reason sometimes added files are
   generated on the server that I did not have within the files I was working on.
   So, to be absolutely sure that everything on the server is in agreement with 
   my working files, I will, from time to time, get all the files from the server
   and download them into my working files. I then conduct a search of the strings
   I want to change and upload those files back to the server. That seems to be 
   the only solution that works for me.
 *  Thread Starter [raisthlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raisthlin/)
 * (@raisthlin)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-text-problem/#post-1024328)
 * I found out that the style.css command line
 *     ```
       /* Comment */
       h2.commentheading {
       	font-size: 1.2em;
       	color: #fefef6;
       	font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif;
       ```
   
 * controls the according text but i still cant manage to change the text at all
   even when it is edited in the php files….
 * EDIT: i just conducted a search on the original files as well and theres absolutely
   no “Leave a reply” strings…only Leave a comment…how is it that “Leave a reply”
   shows up ? could it be that its located somewhere else ?
 *  [InterTrade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intertrade/)
 * (@intertrade)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-text-problem/#post-1024332)
 * You need to download all the files from your server and then do your search.
 *  Thread Starter [raisthlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raisthlin/)
 * (@raisthlin)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-text-problem/#post-1024334)
 * Thanks InterTrade 🙂 I tried already and it doesnt work. I made sure that files
   from server and computer matched and were edited correctly. Still cant figure
   this out…its really weird that this text shows up even if it isnt anywhere to
   be found in the files. Maybe it uses the comment.php from the default theme ?…
   so weird
 *  Thread Starter [raisthlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raisthlin/)
 * (@raisthlin)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-text-problem/#post-1024337)
 * I think i found an hint.
 * usually the comment form title located in the comments.php file goes as follow
 * `<h2 class="commentheading" id="respond">Leave a comment</h2>`
 * but for some reasons…it is written like this is the oriental theme comments.php
   file
 * `<h2 class="commentheading"><?php comment_form_title(); ?></h2>`
 * now is there a way to change the text to which `comment_form_title` points toward
 * or am i completely off track ?
 *  [InterTrade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intertrade/)
 * (@intertrade)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-text-problem/#post-1024340)
 * All functions are found within the WordPress working files. You can find the 
   function by typing `function <function name>` within the Find and Replace dialog
   in Dreamweaver. However, I do want to emphasize that if you did not physically
   do a full download from your server, but just did a visual check, odds are you
   missed the file that contains your problem. The only way of ensuring you are 
   searching through every file on the server is to do the full download. The full
   download should take you quite a while to do.
 *  Thread Starter [raisthlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raisthlin/)
 * (@raisthlin)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-text-problem/#post-1024341)
 * EDIT: thanks for all the help InterTrade. I will keep working on it and try to
   full download. Thanks again for the help i do appreciate it.
 * I think it definetely is the
 * `<h2 class="commentheading"><?php comment_form_title(); ?></h2>`
 * line becuase i just changed it a little bit..adding a letter at the end of `<?
   php comment_form_title` and it completely messed up the comment form.
 * Definetely is controling the comment form and the PLAIN simple text i want to
   change. Does anyone know how to make some change ?
 * if you take a look at my page [http://thailande.raisthlin.ca/?p=1#comments](http://thailande.raisthlin.ca/?p=1#comments)
   you can see the text i want to change ( huge sized white text )
 *  Thread Starter [raisthlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raisthlin/)
 * (@raisthlin)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-text-problem/#post-1024353)
 * i resolved the problem. heres how i did it which is kind of a miracle for someone
   who just found out about this wordpress thing.
 * i changed the following code in the comments.php file in the oriental theme folder.
 * `<h2 class="commentheading"><?php comment_form_title(); ?></h2>`
 * into this one
 * `<h2 class="commentheading" id="respond">put text here</h2>`

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