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WordPress WordPress Theme Development Adding a Blog to a WordPress Theme Adding Comments to a Template

Posted by Sean Washington
Sean Washington
12,330 Points

Comments.php suggested since WP 3.0

If you turn on WP_DEBUG, you'll get an error if you include comments in your template without a comments.php file. Just a heads up. The comments will still output, but it's apparently best practice to include a custom comments.php in your theme.

Tyler Groskreutz
Tyler Groskreutz
14,793 Points

Hey buddy. I've been working on adding comments to a blog and experienced the same thing as well. Have you found any good resources for a comments.php template? I've tried the codex but have only gotten snippets out of there.

Could it be as simple as finding a free theme like twenty fourteen and using their comments.php and finding how they implement it with functions.php?

Sean Washington
Sean Washington
12,330 Points

I haven't. I would imagine that you could perhaps copy the comments template that WordPress uses by default. I also found this thread on Stack Exchange that might help:

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/81950/i-dont-have-comments-php-how-do-i-customize-my-comment-fields

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Firetoss Firetoss
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https://github.com/WordPress/twentysixteen/blob/master/comments.php

Sean Washington
Sean Washington
12,330 Points

Thanks Zac. I really enjoy your courses here on Treehouse. Keep up the good work!

geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points
geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points

Hi there, I turned on the debug mode as well in the wp-config file and so the warning was displayed. There is a topic about that issue here with more info and the link to the file to copy/paste.

Gergely Szabo
Gergely Szabo
6,082 Points
Gergely Szabo
Gergely Szabo
6,082 Points

If you use underscores.me It adds the file out of the box. Why didn't you used _ by the way?