Title: Brians Threaded Comments Problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Brians Threaded Comments Problems

 *  [James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamestl2/)
 * (@jamestl2)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-problems/)
 * Anyone else having problems with this plugin? I installed it and it says the 
   plugin is active, but it doesn’t do anything to the existing comments.
 * Also, when I try to update it, I get the message “Your attempt to edit your settings
   has failed.”
 * I don’t have any special comments.php pages or special placements or anything,
   so I have no idea where the problem might be.

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 *  [haochi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haochi/)
 * (@haochi)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-problems/#post-752878)
 * I believe you have to edit the comment**s**.php file. Read the installation notes.
 *  Thread Starter [James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamestl2/)
 * (@jamestl2)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-problems/#post-752879)
 * I looked at the install.txt file that came with the plugin, but it didn’t say
   anything about hard editing the comments.php file.
 * Was it somewhere else?
 *  [haochi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haochi/)
 * (@haochi)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-problems/#post-752888)
 * Okay, I download the plugin and it was pretty clear on what you have to do.
 * #1: You should have a comments.php in your theme’s directory, backup that.
    and
   then … follow the instructions:
 * >  2) Copy briansthreadedcomments.php to <top>/wp-content/plugins/
   >  3) Copy comments.
   > php to <top>/wp-content/themes/<yourtheme>/ 4) Activate brians threaded comments
   > from the plugin page
 * NOTE: There **IS** a comments.php file that comes withe the plugin. Double check
   or [download a new copy of the plugin](http://code.google.com/p/briansthreadedcomments/).
 * It’s probably necessary to edit your comments.php to match the style but you 
   will have to test that out on your own first.
 *  Thread Starter [James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamestl2/)
 * (@jamestl2)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-problems/#post-752892)
 * Thanks for all the help so far, haochi :).
 * I did notice that extra comments.php file, but I wasn’t sure what to do with 
   it. I did everything up to step 2 so far.
 * I just wanted to make sure I do this right. So do I *replace* my current comments.
   php file with the one the plugin provides? Or do I take the code and insert it
   into my current php file? I’m still a little confused about this part…
 *  Thread Starter [James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamestl2/)
 * (@jamestl2)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-problems/#post-752894)
 * Alright, I did it and everything’s working fine, so thanks for all the help again,
   haochi 🙂
 * Now I have a new issue, the comments look plain, I know this will probably require
   custom coding, but is there any way I could apply my theme’s colors, styles, 
   etc. to the new comments.php page?
 * I’m not very familiar with php, so I’m not sure just how much work needs to go
   into applying everything to the new format.
 *  [haochi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haochi/)
 * (@haochi)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-problems/#post-752895)
 * [Edited: Ignore this – Haochi]
 *  Thread Starter [James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamestl2/)
 * (@jamestl2)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-problems/#post-753087)
 * OK, now I have no idea what went wrong, I just tried altering the settings and
   I’m getting the error again. It was working fine last night. I get the threaded
   comments and everything, but no changing the settings.
 * The only editing I did was to the briansthreadedcomments.php CSS section, and
   changed a couple colors around.
 *  [diariesofablogger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diariesofablogger/)
 * (@diariesofablogger)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brians-threaded-comments-problems/#post-753204)
 * hello, i am able to get the nested comments to work (]http://www.diariesofablogger.
   com/why-pay-for-reviews-when-you-can-get-them-free), but when i try to edit the
   option, i also get the “Your attempt to edit your settings has failed” error.
 * i was trying to set the max nesting level and separate trackbacks options, so
   i found the fields in the database. i set the nesting level from 3 to 5. i also
   set the separate trackbacks from true to false because the trackbacks separated
   from the other comments and are showing up under the commment box. after i turned
   it off, the trackbacks disappeared, shouldn’t they now show up with the other
   comments, or did i misunderstand this feature?
 * thanks in advance.

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