Title: multiple comments.php files for each single.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# multiple comments.php files for each single.php

 *  [Jaja..](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaja-1/)
 * (@jaja-1)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-commentsphp-files-for-each-singlephp/)
 * I want to load a 2nd and 3rd comments.php file.
 * Here are my steps:
    First i duplicate comments.php into -> comments1.php and 
   comments2.php
 * So now i have 3 different files only with the same code inside.
    And now when
   i start loading them i want to see which and if a file is getting loaded.
 * So thats why i changed on each comments.php template (file) the heading 3 title
   like this:
 * comments.php -> <h3 id=”comments-title000″>
    comments1.php -> <h3 id=”comments-
   title111″> comments2.php -> <h3 id=”comments-title222″>
 * Now i try to include them on a single.php template first i take the comments2.
   php just to check if it works.
    I add this: Delete this (old)
 *     ```
       <?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>
       ```
   
 * I tried all those options! (new)
 *     ```
       <?php include ( '/comments2.php ); ?>
       <?php include ( 'comments2.php ); ?>
       <?php comments_template( '/comments2.php', true ); ?>
       <?php comments_template( 'comments2.php', true ); ?>
       <?php comments_template( '/comments2.php' ); ?>
       <?php comments_template( 'comments2.php' ); ?>
       ```
   
 * Nothing worked. sometimes it broke my template and i got a white screen, the 
   other time i only got a comment_form but none comments and last i got a great
   looking brand new comments section but it wasn’t loading by the comment2.php 
   or the comments.php but it came from this path.
 * wp-includes > theme-compat > comments.php
 * What is going wrong on my site?
    I have been searching for a solution for a long
   time but i can’t find anything that works.
 * Look at this:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comments_template](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comments_template)
   Quote from that page:
 * > On some occasions you may want display your comments differently within your
   > Theme. For this you would build an alternate file (ex. short-comments.php) 
   > and call it as follows:
 * `<?php comments_template( '/short-comments.php' ); ?>`
 * Thats what i’m doing…
    But still my templates will not get loaded.
 * Some other quotes on that page:
 * > Loads the comment template. **For use in single post and Page displays.**
 * Maybe it’s because i’m using a few different single.php files also. could that
   be a problem? I also duplicated my single.php a few times didn’t change lots 
   of code most of the time it was just some different classes for css.
 * I have include this inside my single.php
 *     ```
       <?php
         $post = $wp_query->post;
   
         if (in_category('1')) {
             include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single-web.php');
         }elseif (in_category('18')) {
             include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single-web.php');
         }elseif (in_category('2')) {
             include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single-print.php');
         }elseif (in_category('19')) {
             include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single-newsfeed.php');
         }else {
             include(TEMPLATEPATH.'/single-default.php');
         }
       ?>
       ```
   
 * This works great i have different single templates for each category.
 * I really would love to know why my site is not loading a different comments.php
   template.
 * Maybe somebody who knows the WordPress people very good can clear my mind and
   tell me why do they go from a single.php template inside the theme folder to 
   a comment-template.php file outside my theme folder and inside the wp-includes
   folder (core files) and from this comment-template.php file they go straight 
   back inside my theme folder to the file comments.php ???
    I don’t get the logic
   but i’am not a coding person so i don’t wanna look the smart-guy here but i think
   calling 3 different template-files for loading comments into a page is lots of
   traffic and you can mess things up very easy. (comment-template.php, comments.
   php and functions.php)
 * I found somebody with the same problem as i have but i don’t know what the last
   person is saying in this topic.
    Yeah a little bit i can understand.. [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/2-comments-templates-1?replies=3](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/2-comments-templates-1?replies=3)
   I think he is pointing to something of the same i did with the the single.php
   template. something like: If comments are in category (..) go to …template and
   if not go to default. but how do i use this code for comments and comment-templates?
 * Thanks for your time.

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