Editing comment-form.php

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Dennis

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27/01/2017 3:51 am [#870]

Why can't we edit the comment-form.php the same way we can the class.WpdiscuzWalker.php file?

wpDiscuz 4 allows you to customize comment list design and overwrite styles. Template files are:

/wpdiscuz/assets/css/wpdiscuz.css (Style / Colors / Backrounds …)

/wpdiscuz/templates/comment/class.WpdiscuzWalker.php (Layout, HTML structure)

You can edit these files in an upgrade-safe way using overrides. Just copy the wpdiscuz.css or class.WpdiscuzWalker.php file to a folder within your current active WordPress theme named /wpdiscuz/ and start to customize.
Target location of wpDiscuz template files:

/wp-content/themes/mytheme/wpdiscuz/wpdiscuz.css

/wp-content/themes/mytheme/wpdiscuz/class.WpdiscuzWalker.php

The copied files will now automatically override the wpDiscuz default template files. All changes in this file will not be lost on plugin update.
Do not edit these files within the core plugin itself as they are overwritten during the upgrade process and any customizations will be lost.

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Tom

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28/01/2017 1:37 am

Because comment form is already editable. wpDiscuz comes with Custom Comment Form creation API. You can create different forms with different fields for different post types. There is no a static comment form, so there is no way to edit it as a template file. Comment forms are dynamic data, and they are being created and managed through Dashboard > Comments > Forms admin page.

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