Title: Customize comment form
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Customize comment form

 *  [jfarts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfarts/)
 * (@jfarts)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-comment-form-1/)
 * Hey there,
 * I’m having some trouble with the customization of the comment form. The theme
   I am using is a child theme of Twenty Eleven and can be found on [http://www.chavanonkoor.nl](http://www.chavanonkoor.nl).
 * I would like to change some of the default variables used by comment_form() which
   is called from comments.php.
 * In order to do this I copied comments.php to my childs theme folder and followed
   the example from [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_form](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_form).
   I plugged in the following code in comments.php before the comment.form() call.
 *     ```
       <?php $comments_args = array(
               // change the title of send button
               'label_submit'=>'Send',
               // change the title of the reply section
               'title_reply'=>'Write a Reply or Comment'
               );
       ?>
       ```
   
 * Then I replaced comment.form() by comment.form($comments_args) and it should 
   replace the defined variables. Only it doesn’t.
 * Does anybody have any ideas about this? I’ve been looking for an answer for a
   couple of hours but I didn’t find one.
 * Thanks!

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 * [form](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/form/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-comment-form-1/)
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