You shouldn’t copy that file, precisely because it is too bulky. About half of it is implementation of submission form, which was entirely replaced with comment_form() function around that time. So the answer why was it deprecated is roughly: Newer code is more compact Markup belongs in theme For better and more relevant comments.php example … Read more
There are a couple other hooks in the comment form that you can use. Where you’re hooking on only displays if the user isn’t logged in. If you want that field for all users (logged in or not), you need to add your form by hooking into both comment_form_after_fields and comment_form_logged_in_after, both of which are … Read more
If your IP problem is solved that’s great did you try the option in word press setting->discussion->Enable threaded (nested) comments ? Might solve your DB problem As well if works.
This is hard. Output buffering could solve that: add_action( ‘comment_form_field_comment’, ‘ob_start’ ); add_action( ‘comment_form’, ‘wpse_83898_replace_submit’ ); function wpse_83898_replace_submit() { $html = ob_get_clean(); # do some magic echo $html; } Just an idea, not tested.
If you need to modify the max depth, you could use the thread_comments_depth_max filter: /** * Set max comments depth to 15 on the discussion settings page */ add_filter( ‘thread_comments_depth_max’, function( $max ) { return 15; } ); then the dropdown on the discussion settings page will show the range 1 – 15. But I … Read more
Because that’s done in javascript, and you have to enqueue that javascript for it to work, as stated in the docs: If JavaScript is enabled and the comment-reply.js JavaScript is loaded the link moves the comment form to just below the comment. https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_reply_link e.g. function wpse289875_enqueue_comments_reply() { if ( is_singular() && get_option( ‘thread_comments’ ) ) … Read more
When we post an empty anonymous reply, we get the following errors: The part of BBPress that’s responsible for handling this, is the bbp_new_reply_handler() function, in the file /bbpress/includes/replies/functions.php. It contains these lines that are of interest to us: // User is anonymous if ( bbp_is_anonymous() ) { // Filter anonymous data $anonymous_data = bbp_filter_anonymous_post_data(); … Read more
In your comments.php template file use wp_list_comments and set the parameter callback to your defined function that will generate the template. Inside the function you can style the comment reply link. wp_list_comments codex Further reading on comment display
No, it is not a bug. This is how core handles it. If you look into /wp-includes/comment-template.php, you’ll notice, that the only difference in <form> element, is novalidate attribute added, when current_theme_supports( ‘html5’, ‘comment-form’ ) is true. But there are other html elements within comment form, which are affected by theme’s choice of html5 support. … Read more
This question have answered again, here Also you can do the same with JQuery and Validation plugin You not to do anything other than install comment form JS validation plugin. Click here and download.