Title: comment_form function confusion!
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# comment_form function confusion!

 *  [swthate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swthate/)
 * (@swthate)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment_form-function-confusion/)
 * Hi there.
 * I’ve been doing some simple work with WordPress and making custom themes for 
   clients from scratch using Starkers. Only thing is, the last time I’ve done a
   lot of WP work was during 2.8, and now that I’m redoing and doing new sites I’m
   totally confused by the change of how the comment form is handled.
 * I’ve searched and searched but haven’t found any real clear answers to my questions:**
   how** and **where** do I edit the html of the comment form? I understand that
   it is a PHP function now (my PHP knowledge is very low, mind you), but how can
   I edit it?
 * If this has been brought up a lot before, sorry for not being able to find any
   relevant posts!
 * Many thanks in advance — I’m in quite a pickle!

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 *  [datdesignguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/datdesignguy/)
 * (@datdesignguy)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment_form-function-confusion/#post-2842677)
 * Hi swthate,
 * I feel your pain. I went through the same kind of struggle when I had to tackle
   a very customized comment section for a theme I did last year for a client.
 * Here is a post from Justin Tadlock I found that finally got me moving again: 
   [http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/07/21/using-the-wordpress-comment-form](http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/07/21/using-the-wordpress-comment-form)
 * I hope this helps you like it did me!
 *  Thread Starter [swthate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swthate/)
 * (@swthate)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment_form-function-confusion/#post-2842693)
 * Thanks, that page does help a bit.
 * I’m still having a little bit of trouble with it, though. I’ll list the things
   I want to change, maybe that’ll help a little more.
 * 1. This is for a funeral home website, so all the labels and text that show “
   comment” need to be changed to “tribute”. So, I went to where that page talked
   about changing the comment_field, hoping to easily change the <label for=”comment”
   > to <label for=”tribute”>. He gives a line of code to accomplish that, but I’m
   still confused as to where I put that line of code. Like I said, I’m not good
   in PHP, so I don’t always know what things may or may not be implied with it.
   I imagine I put the code inside the comment_form function, but is it nested in
   its own parameter, or what?
 * 2. Right now the comment form and the label for it are on the same line when 
   the page is rendered, I just want to put a line break between the field label
   and the field itself. Or would that be simply solved by adding some CSS to the
   field itself and changing its display?
 * 3. I want to delete all the text that says “You may use these HTML tags and attributes:…”
 * Sorry if I’m a little dense 🙂
 * Thanks for the help so far, though!
 *  Thread Starter [swthate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swthate/)
 * (@swthate)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment_form-function-confusion/#post-2842695)
 * Oh, wait, I think I figured it out. I was doing everything right, except for 
   editing the wrong part of the line of code that site provided. 🙂

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