Title: Modifying comments.php doesn’t work on theme
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Modifying comments.php doesn’t work on theme

 *  [anabelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anabelle/)
 * (@anabelle)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-commentsphp-doesnt-work-on-theme/)
 * Hi, i’ve modified WP themes for long time but today i’m having trouble with a
   new theme.
 * In it’s folder there is a comments.php file but when i modify it nothing happens
   in the blog itself. it keeps showing the comments with i don’t know wich template.
 * Ive looked the comments.php in /default but it doesn’t match the way the comments
   are being displayed, i don’t know what may be wrong.
 * Can you pleas help.

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 *  Thread Starter [anabelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anabelle/)
 * (@anabelle)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-commentsphp-doesnt-work-on-theme/#post-642143)
 * Ok i cant find out what’s wrong so im using
 * ‘<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/comments.php’); ?>’
 * instead of
 * ‘<?php comments_template(); ?>’
 * and now it uses the correct file and displays the comment form but it doesn’t
   show me the comments already made.
 * What can i do?
 *  [idycommunity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idycommunity/)
 * (@idycommunity)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-commentsphp-doesnt-work-on-theme/#post-642315)
 * Did you ever get this fixed properly? I’m having the same problem.
 *  Thread Starter [anabelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anabelle/)
 * (@anabelle)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-commentsphp-doesnt-work-on-theme/#post-642316)
 * Yes, it actually was with a plugin. I cant remember wich exactli but I think 
   it was the “paged comments” one.
 * It had its own comments template.
 * let me know if its the same for you.
 *  [idycommunity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idycommunity/)
 * (@idycommunity)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-commentsphp-doesnt-work-on-theme/#post-642317)
 * Can’t find it.
 *  Thread Starter [anabelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anabelle/)
 * (@anabelle)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-commentsphp-doesnt-work-on-theme/#post-642318)
 * check with any comments related plugin you have…
 * also try checking thatyour style.css is well recognized by WP, whe i has this
   problem I also had a problem with my CSS encoding. (it came from a Mac)

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 * Last reply from: [anabelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anabelle/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-commentsphp-doesnt-work-on-theme/#post-642318)
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