Customizing WordPress Themes comments form

[danjev]

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I’m after a good book or tutorial that will teach me how to customize the WordPress comments form and how the comments are displayed. I’ve searched the internet for help on this and all I’ve found are out of date tutorials or I’m just not getting it. Can anyone help? Thanks!

[TheDoc]

Styling the comments is as easy as looking at the HTML that WordPress outputs and overriding any default styling it may have with your own CSS.

[Brightonmike]

Just use your browsers developer tools to identify the selectors used, then re-style in your themes CSS.

It also depends whether you’re using a theme that has it’s own comments markup or whether it uses the “comment_form” tag. If it uses the latter you can use your functions.php to add/edit the fields. You can also edit the “comment_form” tag, for example mine is:

	'Comments','comment_notes_before' => '
' . __( 'Your email address will not be published. Name/Email fields are required.' ) . ( $req ? $required_text : '' ) . '

')); ?>

As you can see I’ve edited the notes. Hope this helps.

[danjev]

Thanks guys all help is much appreciated!!

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