[Resolved] Change H3 in comments

[AJ]

Hi team,

I am in the process of making a few changes to the comments section.

I want to change <h3> tags into <strong> tags.

I’ve managed to change the comments-title (“x thoughts on…”) successfully but am struggling to work out how to change the reply-title (“leave a comment”).

I did find this ticket but it doesn’t explain the code changes required:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/remove-h3-from-leave-comment/

I’m sure it’s very easy, but I’m not seeing it.

Thanks!

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[David]

Hi there,

in your child theme copy of the comments.php look for this section of code:

https://github.com/tomusborne/generatepress/blob/6933da4f9a85e183bcf8485836339043dfc4a650/comments.php#L44-L62

You can see the opening and closing <h3> just change them.

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[AJ]

Thanks David.

That’s actually what I did but strangely enough that only changes the “x thoughts on…” header, not the “leave a comment” header.

I am using the marketer template, if that makes a difference.

[David]

Oops my bad… having one of those days. So you can filter the Reply title like so:

add_filter( 'comment_form_defaults', 'custom_reply_title' );
function custom_reply_title( $defaults ){
  $defaults['title_reply_before'] = '<strong id="reply-title" class="comment-reply-title">';
  $defaults['title_reply_after'] = '</strong>';
  return $defaults;
}

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[AJ]

Thanks David, that worked nicely.

[David]

Glad to be of help ( second time round lol )

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[Jörg]

Hi,

I would like to change the H3 too, but that solution is not working.

Can you help me?

Thanks

[Ying]

Hi Jörg,

Could you open a new topic for your question instead of leaving comments in a resolved topic?

In your new topic, could you specify which H3 you are trying to change?

Thanks 🙂

[Jörg]

Hi,
I would like to change the same H3 as AJ in the first place (in the comment section “x thoughts on…” and “leave a comment”. Because it’s the same topic, I commented here.
I tried the solution from David, but it didn’t work.
Sure, I should open a new topic with the same problem?
Thanks

[Ying]

So you want to change the <H3> tag to<strong> as well?

Or you just want to change the text?

[Jörg]

Hi,
I want to change theH3 to a strong.

[Elvin]

Hi Jorg,

David’s code found here should work:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/change-h3-in-comments/#post-821318

I’ve tested it myself to verify. See the comment title here: Demo

You can see that Leave a comment got smaller because it’s using <strong> now instead of <h3>

Perhaps there’s an issue with how you’re adding the PHP snippet. Can you tell us how you’re adding it to your site? Let us know.

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[Jörg]

Hi Elvin,
I tried Davids fist solution (https://github.com/tomusborne/generatepress/blob/6933da4f9a85e183bcf8485836339043dfc4a650/comments.php#L44-L62) but in my comments.php I did not find the line:

… if ( have_comments() ) : ?>
<h3 class=”comments-title”> …

And i dont know where I should insert the second solution:

add_filter( ‘comment_form_defaults’, ‘custom_reply_title’ );
function custom_reply_title( $defaults ){ …

Where should I put this in?

[Ying]

You could use 1 of the methods from here to add php snippet:
Adding PHP: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/

[Jörg]

I copied this in the child theme functions.php (https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/change-h3-in-comments/#post-821318)
That is fixing my problem for sites who have already one or more comments. On sites without a comment the “write a comment” title is still an H3.

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