CallUp

You will need to define your custom callback function in your theme’s functions.php file. Here is an example:

function mytheme_comment($comment, $args, $depth) {
$GLOBALS[‘comment’] = $comment; ?>
<li <?php comment_class(); ?> id=”li-comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>”>
<div id=”comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>”>
<div class=”comment-author vcard”>
<?php echo get_avatar($comment,$size=’48’,$default='<path_to_url>’ ); ?>

<?php printf(__(‘<cite class=”fn”>%s</cite> <span class=”says”>says:</span>’), get_comment_author_link()) ?>
</div>
<?php if ($comment->comment_approved == ‘0’) : ?>
<?php _e(‘Your comment is awaiting moderation.’) ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<div class=”comment-meta commentmetadata”>comment_ID ) ) ?>”><?php printf(__(‘%1$s at %2$s’), get_comment_date(), get_comment_time()) ?><?php edit_comment_link(__(‘(Edit)’),’ ‘,”) ?></div>

<?php comment_text() ?>

<div class=”reply”>
<?php comment_reply_link(array_merge( $args, array(‘depth’ => $depth, ‘max_depth’ => $args[‘max_depth’]))) ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php
}

Note the lack of a trailing . WordPress will add it itself once it’s done listing any children and whatnot.

From this page.

nkk,
The thing about “back” and “next” is that it can confuse the reader as far as what “back” represents.

For instance the “back” button on your browser takes you to the last page you were on. It doesn’t distinguish between whether that last page you were on contains more recent posts or older posts, and therein lies the potential confusion: Is the “back” button taking you to the page you were just on, even if you were just on a page with the more recent posts than the one you’re on now?

By better articulating the time line of the page it is taking you too (a page with more recent posts vs a page with more older posts) that clarifies that confusion.

As far as that button being on the left or right of the screen, you might have a point there.

Having said all this, if you go into the page that contains this function call, it takes as arguments (in quotes) exactly what you want it to say. You can change “Older posts” to “next” or to “back” if that seems clearer to you.

Don’t mess with anything in functions.php.

That’s where the functions are defined – which are getting called from your other pages.

Are you using home.php instead of index.php? Look for that.

You need to find where that function call is coming from. It could be getting called from your header.php file, if that’s how that theme was designed.

Basically, your Theme has been broken down into several parts:

The main one is either index.php or home.php and it pulls in the following files:
header.php
sidebar.php
footer.php

… and possibly others.

In my index.php, from my index.php, it goes like this:

get_header() – pulls in the header file

then comes the main loop inside index.php
after the main loop it calls that function you’re looking for: ** <?php next_posts_link() **

then it calls
get_sidebar()
get_footer()

So my next_post_link() is getting called from index.php. Check to see what pages are being called before the main loop in your index.php (or in home.php if you don’t have an index.php). If the only thing above your main loop is a get_header() call, then check inside header.php, and see if it’s in there.

Not sure if I’m making this clear or just complicating it for you.

That code should be in two places: once before the main Loop, and once after it. You can just delete the one above the loop and leave the bottom one alone.