Title: User icons for comments
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# User icons for comments

 *  [alittlestranger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alittlestranger/)
 * (@alittlestranger)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-icons-for-comments/)
 * I have a couple of questions about icons and comments
 * I have specified wordpress to how user icons on comments, but they dont show 
   up, is this because of the theme? is there a way i can change it?
 * Also, how can i nest the comments? At the moment they appear in a big long list
   with no option to reply to a specific comment.
 * Site is here:
    [http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/](http://www.alittlestranger.com/wordpress/)

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-icons-for-comments/#post-1297985)
 * > is this because of the theme
 * Almost certainly. Have you tried temporarily switching to the default theme to
   confirm this?
 * > is there a way i can change it
 * You could try editing your theme’s comments.php to use [wp_list_comments()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_comments)
   which will show gravatars by default.
 * > how can i nest the comments?
 * Admin/Settings/Discussion. Tick _Enable threaded (nested) comments_. However,
   this will only work if you are using a theme that supported nested comments. 
   Again using wp_list_comments() in comments.php as well as ensiring that you have
   added:
 * `<?php if(is_singular()) wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' );?>`
 * just before `<?php wp_head(); ?>` in header.php should enable comment nesting
   properly.
 *  Thread Starter [alittlestranger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alittlestranger/)
 * (@alittlestranger)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-icons-for-comments/#post-1298179)
 * thanks for your reply 🙂
 * I changed the comments.pho and header.php and it worked – the comments show avatars
   and you can reply, but then all the comments are listed again below
 *  Thread Starter [alittlestranger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alittlestranger/)
 * (@alittlestranger)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-icons-for-comments/#post-1298219)
 * actually scrap my last comment, you still cant reply to an individual comment,
   and all the comments are listed twice 🙁

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-icons-for-comments/#post-1298219)
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