comment_form action not firing

[dylan]

I'm the author of a plugin that adds to the comment form via the WordPress comment_form action. A support request from a user with a Genesis child theme indicates that comment_form is not firing, even though comment_form_after is. Any tips for troubleshooting this? Thanks!

[David Chu]

Dylan,
An interesting question. I've done some of this filtering using regular WP code. Admittedly, this stuff is not well-documented - the WP comment area is sort of a black box, and usually that's sufficient. Genesis has some proprietary comment filter bits, too, but I like to go theme agnostic, so to speak. There is also some code that refers to using the newer HTML5 structure, so maybe it's possible somebody is using an old XHTML theme that doesn't play well, but that's only a guess.

Here's a quick example, filtering a couple fields. Code that goes in functions.php of the theme that works great for me:

add_filter( 'comment_form_defaults', 'dc_change_form_title');
function dc_change_form_title($arg) {
     $arg['title_reply'] = __('Please Comment');
     $arg['comment_notes_after'] = 'Dang! You are so cute!';
     return $arg;
}

Hope that helps a bit! I'd be interested in knowing the name of your plugin. 🙂
Dave

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