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.

Note

There's actually some helpful code in the documentation at https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_comments for our wp_list_comments, and this is what we want.

In the comments.php file enter the following code:

<?php $args =...