Title: Adding a comment policy
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Adding a comment policy

 *  Resolved [atommeetsdream](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atommeetsdream/)
 * (@atommeetsdream)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-comment-policy/)
 * Hi! I’ve tried doing a search before I posted this and all i get is a page with‘
   loading’ written on it every time (and nothing else appears…) so apologies in
   advance if this has been answered.
 * I just want to add a simple bit of normal sized text above the box you write 
   comments in (as a kind of comments policy) and I cant seem to find the right 
   place to add this. Any advice about how to do this would also be appreciated,
   as well as the correct location!
 * my website is [http://atommeetsdream.com](http://atommeetsdream.com) in case 
   that helps 🙂
 * Thanks!
    CC

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 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-comment-policy/#post-4316786)
 * The easiest way is to put this code below into Appearance > Edit CSS (this option
   is provided by Jetpack that you’ve already installed, but any Custom CSS plugin
   will do).
 *     ```
       .comments-area:before {
       	content: "My comments policy text";
       	font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2;
       	display: block; margin-bottom: 12px;
       }
       ```
   
 * The other way is to create a child theme for it.
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * and then override/overwrite `comments.php`
    [http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ilisa/1.1.1/comments.php](http://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/ilisa/1.1.1/comments.php)
 * putting your text into line#12
 *     ```
       <p class="comments-policy">My comments policy text</p>
       ```
   
 * the class is just in case you need to style it.
 *  Thread Starter [atommeetsdream](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atommeetsdream/)
 * (@atommeetsdream)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-comment-policy/#post-4316787)
 * Great, thanks so much for that I’ll give it a go!
 *  Thread Starter [atommeetsdream](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atommeetsdream/)
 * (@atommeetsdream)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-comment-policy/#post-4316790)
 * Worked! Cheers again!

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-a-comment-policy/#post-4316790)
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