Re-arranging the comment fields The comment text area has been moved to the top in WordPress 4.4: What if we prefer the old setup, where it was at the bottom? Re-arranging the author, url and email comment fields We can modify the display order, of the author, url and email fields, with: /** * Re-arranging … Read more
The visual representation of a comment form (or lack of it) do not have any impact on the ability to receive comments, and spammers usually don’t care at all what is in your form. WordPress have a well publicized end point to which all comments are being sent (and while I don’t remember the detail … Read more
I can think of only following ways to achieve this. There is a filter “comments_open” that check if the post whose $post_id is provided has comments open. You can use that to return false. There is another filter “comments_template” that return the template file to be used to display comment form. You can return an … Read more
Open comments.php file inside your theme’s folder <?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?> <?php $fields = array( ‘author’ => ‘<p class=”comment-form-author”>’ . ‘<label for=”author”>’ . __( ‘Name’, ‘responsive’ ) . ‘</label> ‘ . ( $req ? ‘<span class=”required”>*</span>’ : ” ) . ‘<input id=”author” name=”author” type=”text” value=”‘ . esc_attr( $commenter[‘comment_author’] ) . ‘” size=”30″ … Read more
I wonder if you mean this kind of approach: add_filter( ‘init’, function() { $u = wp_get_current_user(); if( $u->exists() && in_array( ‘banned’, $u->roles, true ) ) add_filter( ‘comments_open’, ‘__return_false’ ); } ); where we check if the current user has the custom banned role. If that’s the case then we force all comments to be closed … Read more
Filter comment_form_defaults and add your code to the textarea. Sample code, not tested: add_filter( ‘comment_form_defaults’, ‘wpse_120049_extend_textarea’ ); function wpse_120049_extend_textarea( $args ) { $args[‘comment_field’] .= ‘<p>Extra text.</p>’; return $args; }
Ok I feel stupid now. The problem was that for whatever reason some of the posts had comments disabled. I did not know that the only place where they could be toggled was under “Quick Edit”. Problem solved…
Comment.php The way I see your comment.php seems messy and more complex than it needs to be, you can post this piece of code to in your comment.php and it should work okay. <?php /** * If the current post is protected by a password and * the visitor has not yet entered the password … Read more
Short answer: It doesn’t, but you can get around this: add_filter(‘comment_form_field_comment’, ‘my_comment_form_field_comment’); function my_comment_form_field_comment($default){ return false; } add_action(‘pre_comment_on_post’, ‘my_pre_comment_on_post’); function my_pre_comment_on_post($post_id){ $some_random_value = rand(0, 384534); $_POST[‘comment’] = “Default comment. Some random value to avoid duplicate comment warning: {$some_random_value}”; } If you want this only for certain pages, then you should create a custom page template, … Read more
Ensure that you have Threaded Comments enabled: go to Dashboard -> Settings -> Discussion and enable the option to thread comments Ensure that your Theme enqueues the comment-reply script. Look for the following, usually in header.php, functions.php, etc.: <?php wp_enqueue_script( ‘comment-reply’ ); ?> Note: this call is usually wrapped in a conditional, such as: <?php … Read more