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Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects

You're reading from   Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects Master the fundamentals of WordPress theme development and create attractive WordPress themes from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286641
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Comment Functionality

In this section, we'll add the custom comment functionality.

Let's open up single.php and go right under endif. We'll say <?php comments_template(); ?>:

   <?php endif; ?>

<?php comments_template(); ?>
</div>

Let's save this and reload. We have our comment section now:

Let's say Great Post, click on Post Comment, and it works!

Now this will work as far as functionality goes, but it doesn't look too good, so I want to show you how we can customize this.

We'll create a new page, or a new file, and we'll call this comments.php. If we go back now and reload you'll see there's nothing here, it's reading from this file; if we say Test and reload, we get Test:

So it's up to us to customize how we want this to work.

There's actually some helpful code in the documentation at...
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