How to change default Comments and No Comments
location in Wordpress in wordpress default theme
For a number of time I've been planning to change my
blog
comments placement. Until this very day however I've kept the
default wordpress theme's
Comments button placement.
I realize
the default Comments button placement is a bit
hard to see and not that much intuitive for the user that enters my
blog for a first time.
My first guess was that there might be somewhere a wordpress plugin
which will allow me to adjust my comments button placement.
After some research online and a realization that probably there is
no such plugin existing yet. I've forced myself to tune it up
myself.
It was clear to me that
in order to change the it will be
necessery to edit the Wordpress templates files. I'm not a
designer and when I hear about templates I usually get scared,
however I took the time to take a look at
the default wordpress
template and find out actually that template modifications is
actually rather easier than I thought.
My previous idea was that in order to edit templates you have to be
some kind of CSS and HTML guru (which I'm not). Nevertheless it
seems that in order to play and adjust in a good way the templates
you don't need ot be a pro.
Even an uneducated fool like myself can easily do almost everything
he thinks of throughout few lines of code in the wp
templates.
To get back to the major topic thanks God after a bit of review and
reading of
wordpress.org documentation and some user forums.
I've figured out that
in order to change my Comments placement
you need to modify the file:
- blog/wp-content/themes/default/index.php
In
index.php find the line starting with:
You will notice within this opened paragraph the php code: