Title: making comments pop up?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# making comments pop up?

 *  Resolved [gwynaveir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwynaveir/)
 * (@gwynaveir)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-comments-pop-up/)
 * Okay, this might be a frequently asked question, but unfortunately I am a really
   bad researcher and haven’t been able to find an answer thus far.
 * I am a newbie to PHP, and I’ve noticed that there are two comment templates, 
   Comments and Popup Comments. I’m assuming the latter is for an actual popup window
   in which comments can be made, but I have absolutely no idea how to activate 
   it.
 * If anyone is able to help me, please note that I’m using the latest version of
   WordPress (I did find one instance in which this question was asked but it was
   a different version and was therefore irrelevant) and also that you have to explain
   it as you would a child as I am very new to all things involving Web Design, 
   and even the internet for a large part =P
 * Thanks! Gwyn XOXO

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 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-comments-pop-up/#post-285981)
 * Have you read the [`comments_popup_link`](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/comments_popup_link)
   and [`comments_popup_script`](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/comments_popup_script)
   documentation? I think that should explain what you need. If not, post your follow-
   up question(s) here!
 *  Thread Starter [gwynaveir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwynaveir/)
 * (@gwynaveir)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-comments-pop-up/#post-286490)
 * Yeah, I found them earlier, and I tried both of them out, although I wasn’t entirely
   sure where in the script I was supposed to put them, and now I have them both
   written in, but it doesn’t change it to popup, it stays the way it was before,
   where it opens the other template down the bottom of the page.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-comments-pop-up/#post-286501)
 * Hmmm… nobody wants to recognize it, but it has never been normally documented
   🙁
    even being a veteran Codex reader – I could hardly find the info on a “deprecated”
   well-hidden page: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Answers-Configuration](http://codex.wordpress.org/Answers-Configuration).(
   you have to open the header.php of your theme and either uncomment or add the
   one-line code. [[Answers-Configuration#Showing_Comments_in_Popup_Windows]]
 *  Thread Starter [gwynaveir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwynaveir/)
 * (@gwynaveir)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-comments-pop-up/#post-286511)
 * Thank you!! You are a legend!! *grins*
 *  Thread Starter [gwynaveir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwynaveir/)
 * (@gwynaveir)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-comments-pop-up/#post-286513)
 * P.S. Just took a look at your portfolio . . . gorgeous work =)

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