comment-form

Although the post says,1 year ago, but maybe someone needs to know how, so I will share my knowledge. You may create a file, named comments.php in your active themes’s root directory and make changes to it: <h3>Comment form title</h3> <p><?php cancel_comment_reply_link(); ?></p> <form id=”commentform” action=”<?php echo site_url(); ?>/wp-comments-post.php” method=”post”> <textarea name=”comment” id=”comment”></textarea> <?php comment_id_fields(); … Read more

Two steps comment form

You don’t change the ordering, essentially. If you need to reposition things on the page, you should use CSS. That’s what it’s for. The submit button is in a P with a class of form-submit. You can use that to move it around with CSS.

You should be able to change the HTML structure for the comment form’s submit, with the comment_form_defaults filter. Here’s an untested example: add_filter( ‘comment_form_defaults’, function( $defaults ) { // Edit this to your needs: $button = ‘<input name=”%1$s” type=”submit” id=”%2$s” class=”%3$s” value=”%4$s” />’; // Override the default submit button: $defaults[‘submit_button’] = $button; return $defaults; } … 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

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