[Jim King]

Hi

Is it possible to easily change the comments window title from “Leave a reply” to ” Please leave a comment” ?

Thanks

Jim…

[Zed]

Create a child theme and add this to it’s functions.php file:

function comment_reform ($arg) {
$arg['title_reply'] = __('Please leave a comment');
return $arg;
}
add_filter('comment_form_defaults','comment_reform');

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[Jim King]

Hi Zed

I think I found a fix for this by modifying the wp-includes>comments-template.php file. (I renamed and saved the existing file) then I edited the file and did a find “Leave a reply” and replaced with “Please leave a comment” (4 instances) and re-saved. This seemed to work for now, but I assume a WordPress update may overwrite this in the future? Is that the reason behind suggesting doing it as a child theme?

Thanks

Jim..

[Zach H.]

Zed,

that didn’t work for me. I’ve tried it with parabola-child/functions.php and parabola-child/includes/theme-functions.php

It still shows “leave a reply”.

[Jim]

Thanks Zed,

I added your recommended code as suggested and it worked fine for me.

Zach, did you add the code at the end between the <?php and the ?> to the functions.php file?

Cheers

Jim…

[Gary]

How would I go about removing the Leave a reply box from all pages?

[Jim]

Hi Gary

Go to Pages in the dashboard, choose All Pages and under each go to “quick edit” and uncheck “Allow comments”
That should do it.

Jim…

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