Title: Customizing &amp; Fixing Comment Forms
Last modified: September 14, 2021

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# Customizing & Fixing Comment Forms

 *  [lindseyalbofbutter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lindseyalbofbutter/)
 * (@lindseyalbofbutter)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-fixing-comment-forms/)
 * Hi,
    I am looking to change a few things with my comment forms.
 * Before I begin, I am using these comment forms for 2 things: reviews for orders
   and reviews/comments on recipe posts. The main comment form I have a problem 
   with currently is my order reviews comment form; however, I assume that once 
   the recipe reviews are used (no comments yet), I will notice similar problems
   there as well. My question will (for now) only refer to the order reviews, but
   I hope your answer could be transferable to my potential future recipe review
   problems. But, for now, I’ll only ask about the order reviews.
 * When I started my website, I decided that I’ll just put my order reviews at the
   bottom of my order page. However, many people had difficulty finding where to
   put their review, so I decided to make a new page dedicated to only reviews. 
   This is a sub-item in my menu under my Order Now page. I just created this new
   page and turned on discussions, so the page is basically blank. Also, I am using
   the standard comment forms that come with my theme: Twenty Twenty.
 * Now that you know where I am referring to, onto my problems.
 * 1. The title appears as “Leave A Reply” on the comment form. Or it changes to“
   1 Reply on “*page name*”” when someone adds a comment. The former is on my new
   form in the Reviews tab since no one has used it yet, and the latter is on the
   Order Now page which I will turn off once I get the new Reviews page properly
   running. Once people use the comment form on my new Reviews page, it will change
   the title to “1 Reply on “Reviews””, which I don’t like. How can I change it 
   to always say “Leave a Review”?
 * 2. On the old reviews comment form on the Order Now page, once someone gave me
   a review, their review appeared above the field to add a new comment. To see 
   an example of what I’m talking about, see the bottom of my Order Now page. How
   do I change this so that the new comment field is always above the past comments/
   how do I make it so that posted comments appear underneath the comment form?
 * 3. I already have a review on the old review comment form on the Order Now page,
   so I would like to transfer that comment onto the new comment form on the Reviews
   page. If possible, I would like to be able to do this on the backend through 
   my admin dashboard, but I don’t know how, or if that is possible. Please help
   with this as well, thanks.
 * That should be it I think. I have tried asking how to change the title on comment
   forms before, but the person who replied only gave me the option of typing in
   code snippets. That did not work, since I’ve never used code snippets before 
   and was told to copy off a code snippet someone else used for their website. 
   Again, I’ve never used code snippets before, but I feel like they need to be 
   customized to the website to actually work. I tried asking the responder a question
   on how to use this, but no response. So, I find myself asking again, this time
   with even more problems, since I have since then received a comment that revealed
   more issues.
 * Anyway, any and all help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcustomizing-fixing-comment-forms%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [corrinarusso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinarusso/)
 * (@corrinarusso)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-fixing-comment-forms/#post-14874765)
 * Whoa.
    So much information.
 * I think you need to take a step back.
    I understand why you wanted to create 
   this page: [https://albofbutter.com/reviews/](https://albofbutter.com/reviews/)
   however this is not the right approach. Not bc it simply says “Leave a Reply”,
   but simply bc with this approach you have to manaually manage the entries that
   you are trying to associate back to the recipe or cake product.
 * This is not a technically sound approach.
 * I would also say that there should be separation between an overall generic review
   about you/your business/your website/your communication, etc, etc, etc that should
   come from your Google Reviews Business Listing.
    Then, the reviews that people
   leave on your actually website are only for the specific product or recipe.
 * On this page, you use links to ‘Jump to Recipe’ and also to ‘Print Recipe’.
    
   [https://albofbutter.com/raspberry-cake/](https://albofbutter.com/raspberry-cake/)
   I would use this approach to add a link that says ‘Leave a Review’ or ‘Rate this
   Recipe’ or whatever.
 * To edit your comment form is straight-forward, but you’ll need to be comfortable
   in the backend of your website. Be sure to only do this in a child theme:
    [https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-style-wordpress-comment-form/](https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-style-wordpress-comment-form/)
   there are also plugins to help: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-form/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-form/)

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