Title: Help with comments php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Help with comments php

 *  [f1f](https://wordpress.org/support/users/f1f/)
 * (@f1f)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-comments-php/)
 * I get quite a few comments on my blog and as a result many of my pages have large
   numbers of comments on the bottom.
 * It looks unsightly and I would like to be able to break them up with some graphical
   element, say every ten comments.
 * How would I write the PHP to do that? I am very new to PHP – all I have done 
   so far is make simple edits to PHP code, never written anything new.
 * My current comment code is as follows (it is already configured to use a different
   css class for alternating comments):
 *     ```
       <?php if ($comments) : ?>
       	<h4 id="comments"><?php comments_number('No Responses', 'One Response', '% Responses' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</h4> 
   
       	<ol class="commentlist">
   
       	<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>
   
       		<li class="<?php echo $oddcomment; ?>" id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
       <div class="commentnumber"><?php echo $commentcount++;?></div>
       			<cite><?php comment_author_link() ?> Says: </cite>
       			<?php if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>
       			<em>Your comment is awaiting moderation.</em>
       			<?php endif; ?>
       			<br />
   
       <?php comment_text() ?>
       <small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title=""><?php comment_date('F jS, Y') ?> at <?php comment_time() ?></a> <?php edit_comment_link('e','',''); ?></small>
   
       		</li>
   
       	<?php /* Changes every other comment to a different class */
       		if ('alt' == $oddcomment) $oddcomment = '';
       		else $oddcomment = 'alt';
       	?>
   
       	<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>
   
       	</ol>
   
        <?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>
   
         <?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
       		<!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->
   
       	 <?php else : // comments are closed ?>
       		<!-- If comments are closed. -->
       		<p class="nocomments">Comments are closed.</p>
   
       	<?php endif; ?>
       <?php endif; ?>
   
       <?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
   
       <h4 id="respond">Leave a Reply</h4>
   
       <?php if ( get_option('comment_registration') && !$user_ID ) : ?>
       <p>You must be <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php the_permalink(); ?>">logged in</a> to post a comment.</p>
       <?php else : ?>
   
       <form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">
   
       <?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>
   
       <p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>. <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="Log out of this account">Logout &raquo;</a></p>
   
       <?php else : ?>
   
       <p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="22" tabindex="1" />
       <label for="author"><small>Name <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label></p>
   
       <p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="22" tabindex="2" />
       <label for="email"><small>Mail (will not be published) <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label></p>
   
       <p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="22" tabindex="3" />
       <label for="url"><small>Website</small></label></p>
   
       <?php endif; ?>
   
       <!--<p><small><strong>XHTML:</strong> You can use these tags: <?php echo allowed_tags(); ?></small></p>-->
   
       <p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>
   
       <p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit Comment" />
       <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
       </p>
       <?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>
   
       </form>
   
       <?php endif; // If registration required and not logged in ?>
   
       <?php endif; // if you delete this the sky will fall on your head ?>
       ```
   

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