Title: Adding text above comment box
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Adding text above comment box

 *  [sugarpeach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sugarpeach/)
 * (@sugarpeach)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-above-comment-box/)
 * I’m using the Admired theme. I want to add text above the comment box. From reading
   previous threads about adding text, it seems that I have to edit my comments.
   php. Where should I edit?

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-above-comment-box/#post-2520442)
 * You may be able to do what you want by adding an action to the
    ‘comment_form_before’
   hook. Try adding something like this to your functions.php:
 *     ```
       add_action( 'comment_form_before', 'my_pre_comment_text' );
   
       function my_pre_comment_text() {
       	echo '<div class="mytext"><p>I want some text here before the comments.</p></div>';
       }
       ```
   
 * Of course, you will probably also need to add some styling.
 *  Thread Starter [sugarpeach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sugarpeach/)
 * (@sugarpeach)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-above-comment-box/#post-2520492)
 * Where is the comment_form_before hook located? I cannot find it in the functions.
   php.
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-above-comment-box/#post-2520499)
 * The code I gave goes into your functions.php. comment_form_before hook is built
   into WP – it is not in the theme’s files.
 * But, be careful, you may need to enclose the code in php tags. If you make a 
   mistake, you may not be able to log in to your site to correct it. Don/t add 
   the code unless you are sure it is going to be OK.

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