Title: Setting comment_notes_after in comment_form
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Setting comment_notes_after in comment_form

 *  Resolved [Ate Up With Motor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ate-up-with-motor/)
 * (@ate-up-with-motor)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-comment_notes_after-in-comment_form/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m trying to figure out how to add a piece of reminder text to my WordPress 
   site’s comment form. I can get it to work by copying my parent theme’s comments.
   php file and inserting the text here:
 * `<?php comment_form(array('comment_notes_after' => '')); ?>`
 * It seems like I should be able to set the comment_notes_after argument with a
   filter hook from the child theme’s functions.php file, but I’m still trying to
   get my head around the filter hook concept and I can’t figure out how to do it.
 * I know I need to define a function and then use add_filter to hook that filter
   to the comment_form function, but I’m not grasping at all what the function needs
   to be.
 * Sorry if this is obtuse — I’m not a programmer and a lot of this is entirely 
   new to me.

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-comment_notes_after-in-comment_form/#post-4208170)
 * Try adding this to your theme’s functions.php, and see if it works for you:
 *     ```
       add_action('comment_form', 'my_reminder_note');
       function my_reminder_note() {
       	if (is_single()) {
       	echo '<div class="YOUR CLASS"> ';	echo  ' YOUR REMINDER NOTE');
       	echo '</div>';
           }
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Ate Up With Motor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ate-up-with-motor/)
 * (@ate-up-with-motor)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-comment_notes_after-in-comment_form/#post-4208216)
 * That gives me a syntax error; something about the echo statements isn’t punctuated
   right, I think.
 *  Thread Starter [Ate Up With Motor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ate-up-with-motor/)
 * (@ate-up-with-motor)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-comment_notes_after-in-comment_form/#post-4208220)
 * Also, I don’t know why it would need an if statement. Basically, I want to add
   some text that will appear as part of the comment form (above the submit button,
   which is why I was looking at comment_notes_after) any time comment_form is called.
 *  Thread Starter [Ate Up With Motor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ate-up-with-motor/)
 * (@ate-up-with-motor)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-comment_notes_after-in-comment_form/#post-4208235)
 * Okay, I figured out the syntax error and got that to work. I was hoping to add
   the notice above the submit button (which I’m able to do by setting the comment_notes_after
   argument for comment_form, although as mentioned that involved hacking or replacing
   a theme file), so it’s not exactly what I’m after, but it will probably suffice.
 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-comment_notes_after-in-comment_form/#post-4208245)
 * Glad you got it working.
 * Not essential, but if you’re interested, adding a filter hook to a child theme’s
   functions.php file isn’t normally considered hacking a theme (in the bad sense
   of something to be avoided) Child themes were implemented exactly for this sort
   of thing.
 * Some commercial themes are actually child themes, so in that case (or if it just
   makes more sense conceptually) you could create a simple plugin to contain your
   filter hook code. Creating a plugin is nothing more than putting a particularly
   formatted comment on your code page and placing it in a folder under the plugins
   directory.
 *  Thread Starter [Ate Up With Motor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ate-up-with-motor/)
 * (@ate-up-with-motor)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-comment_notes_after-in-comment_form/#post-4208249)
 * I know that adding a filter hook is not considered theme-hacking; my point was
   that I couldn’t figure out any way to make the change I wanted _without_ hacking
   theme files.
 * Besides not wanting to hack or replace theme files, the reason I was hoping to
   handle it this way was that I was really hoping I could figure out how to create
   a simple filter hook so that I can do so again later. I grasp what the filters
   do and understand approximately how a filter hook would need to work to do what
   I wanted, but I’m just not familiar enough with PHP or WordPress functions to
   make it work.
 * It doesn’t seem like a plugin (even a simple one) should be necessary for something
   as simple as setting the value of a single argument for comment_form() each time
   that function is called, but maybe I just don’t get it…
 * In any case, the action hook gets the job done, so that’s definitely a step in
   the right direction. Thanks!

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## Tags

 * [child theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-theme/)
 * [comment_form](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comment_form/)
 * [filter hooks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/filter-hooks/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-comment_notes_after-in-comment_form/#post-4208249)
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