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by bobjack

Posted: 16 years ago 12 replies

PROGRAMMING

Can anyone tell me how to change the "0 Comments" to "Leave A Comment" in Word Press?

#blog #comments #press #word

TheArticleWriter 16 years ago

In your theme folder, you should find a file called comments.php. You need to edit this. Do you know php programming language?

Christine.
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- bobjack 16 years ago
  
  Christine,
  
  Thanks for the reply, and sorry for the delay in responding to you. No I don't but my girl friend does. The theme is a standard WP theme called frost. Any further suggestions?
  
  Bob
  
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TheArticleWriter 16 years ago

So get your gf to ftp the file comments.php from the folder called theme, onto a computer. She can then have a look at it and should find a place there where she can change the text. If she gets stuck, send me the file and I will have a look. It is different for each theme, so I can't just tell you to change line "whatever".

Good luck!
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- bobjack 16 years ago
  
  I downloaded the file for her, plus several others she thought was needed. She could not figure it out, she said I needed a WP programmer since she could not find where the function was called from, and changing what we saw had no effect in the comment.php file. I will send you the file tonight, at work now...
  
  There was another comment after yours, not sure it helps or not. Thanks Bob
  
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Peter01 16 years ago

If you use something like Disqus for comments this would be really easy
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SteveJohnson 16 years ago

You'll need to look in the comments.php file for a call to the function 'comments_number'. It will look something like this:

PHP Code:

Comments on This Post (<?php comments_number('none', '1', '%' );?>)

Obviously the wording will be different - the important part is to search for that function call. The function takes 3 arguments ( the parts in the parentheses ). The first is the text to be displayed for no comments, then 1 comment, then multiple comments. The % sign in the above example tells the function to output the actual number.

Anyway, the 'none' argument is the one you'll need to change (yours will say '0 Comments').
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FabianSmith 16 years ago

Nice info i also implement for my blog ......
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- bobjack 16 years ago
  
  Did you get it to work, if so, tell me the code changes and where found. I'm getting lost in all the templates. Thanks
  
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zeeshi570 16 years ago

You can change it in comments.php. if you can't find it send me a PM i will help you.
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- bobjack 16 years ago
  
  I was able to change in in the comments.php but with the changed file it still did not work.
  
  I kind of gave up on it, not knowing how all the templates interact. Zeeshan and Christine offered to help change the file if sent, but I was able to make the changes as suggested by everybody that responded, but still no cigar. Any further suggestions?
  
  Thanks to everyone that has responded so far.
  
  Bob
  
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Summer1 16 years ago

It depends on your theme files, every theme has different code, and there may be alot of free theme called frost. if you provide the file, people may be able to help easier.
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rosesmark 15 years ago

Originally Posted by bobjack

Can anyone tell me how to change the "0 Comments" to "Leave A Comment" in Word Press?

This link would help you out.I hope

http://zemalf.com/1293/replacing-no-comments/
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