Comments filters

Filters for comment-related text and behaviour.

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• Comments title and form text
  • generate_comments_title_output
  • generate_comment_form_title
  • generate_leave_comment
  • generate_post_comment
• Comment form fields
  • comment_form_default_fields
• Single comment
  • generate_add_comment_date_link

Comments title and form text

generate_comments_title_output

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The generate_comments_title_output filter allows you to change the output of the comment title element.

Parameters: $value. Default: shown right, computed at render time:

sprintf(
				'<h2 class="comments-title">%s</h2>',
				esc_html( $comments_title )
			)

add_filter( 'generate_comments_title_output', function( $output, $comments_title ) {
    return sprintf(
        '<p class="comments-title">%s</p>',
        esc_html( $comments_title )
    );
}, 10, 2 );

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generate_comment_form_title

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The generate_comment_form_title filter allows you to change the default # thoughts on {post_title} text.

Parameters: $value (string). Default: # thoughts on {post_title}.

add_filter( 'generate_comment_form_title', function() {
    return 'What do others say';
} );

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generate_leave_comment

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The generate_leave_comment filter allows you to change the default Leave a Comment text.

Parameters: $value (string). Default: Leave a Comment.

add_filter( 'generate_leave_comment','tu_custom_leave_comment' );
function tu_custom_leave_comment() {
    return 'Join the conversation';
}

Guide: Blog

generate_post_comment

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The generate_post_comment filter allows you to change the default Post Comment text.

Parameters: $value (string). Default: Post Comment.

add_filter( 'generate_post_comment', function( $value ) {
    return $value;
} );

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Comment form fields

comment_form_default_fields

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The comment_form_default_fields filter (a WordPress core filter) sets the markup for the comment form’s Name, Email and Website fields; GeneratePress hooks into it (generate_filter_comment_fields()) to replace their visible <label> text with placeholder text and a screen-reader label instead.

Parameters: $fields (array, keyed author, email, url — each an HTML string). Default: GeneratePress’s placeholder-based markup for each field (falls back to WordPress core’s own labelled markup if GeneratePress is deactivated).

add_filter( 'comment_form_default_fields', function( $fields ) {
    $fields['url'] = ''; // Remove the Website field.
    return $fields;
}, 20 );

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Single comment

generate_add_comment_date_link

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The generate_add_comment_date_link allows you to disable the default comment date link.

Parameters: $value. Default: true.

add_filter( 'generate_add_comment_date_link', '__return_false' );

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