Title: Problem with comments_link()
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problem with comments_link()

 *  [Jez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jez/)
 * (@jez)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comments_link/)
 * I’m trying to use comments_link() to create a link to my comments page.
    In my
   index.php everything works fine, but if I use wp.php then the link still points
   towards the index.php comments page. The docs say the function has this parameter:“
   file name, in case you want to use a different template for comments (default
   is the current template)” But when I specify a different filename, i.e. comments_link(“
   wp.php”) it does not make any difference. The link still points to the index.
   php comments page. So… are the docs wrong, or am I stupid? And if the docs are
   wrong, how can I achieve what I am trying to achieve (i.e. a link to the comments
   page without changing to the index.php template). Thanks for any help.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comments_link/#post-33324)
 * I’m not sure where you want the Comments link to go to ?
    Is it to a WP file,
   or a different one ? Which build are you using ?
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comments_link/#post-33331)
 * Okay .. I think I know what you mean… (and I’m really new to this PHP lark myself)
   
   When you click the Comments Link, you are getting a page that is formatted the
   same way as index.php – is that it ? And you want it to lose that formatting,
   so you can style it how you want ?
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comments_link/#post-33347)
 * This seems to be a known issue, because it mentions on the [wiki](http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php?TemplateTags)
   that parameter doesn’t work. Hopefully the developers will sort it out for 1.1
   🙂
    You mention you’re having the same issue with some other calls; could you
   note that on the same page, next to the relevant tags? Or stick it here and someone
   else will add it for you.
 *  Thread Starter [Jez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jez/)
 * (@jez)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comments_link/#post-33369)
 * The other calls aren’t broken as such, because they don’t take such a parameter.
   But what I meant was that _because_ they don’t have such a parameter, they are
   giving me the same problem as the comments_link() link, which is that they link
   to my default template no matter what template is being used.
    I think that’s
   right anyway, I just woke up…

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Jez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jez/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-comments_link/#post-33369)
 * Status: not resolved

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