[Resolved] Change h3 tag comment title w/ child theme

[finanzbeben]

Dear GP Team

I came across older posts regarding the change of the HTML heading in the comment title tag.

As I learned, I have installed the child theme and copied the comment.php snippet to the child.
Accordingly, I have also changed the HTML heading from H3 to H2 just to make sure that this solution works.

See also the picture from the code in the child theme: https://ibb.co/khpMKkS

The thing ist, this doesn’t change a thing.

Do I miss something here? I simply need to install the child theme, copy comment php from the parent theme and adjust, right? Parent theme still activated and NOT the child theme, or am I wrong here?

Kind regards and thanks for your support

[Ying]

Hi there,

If you go with the child theme method, you don’t need to add a filter to the functions.php file.

The steps would be:

1. Take a copy of comments.php from the GeneratePress theme, and paste it to your child theme folder.
2. Change this line <h2 class="comments-title">%s</h2> of the child theme comments.php file to <h3 class="comments-title">%s</h3>.
3. Activate the child theme at appearance > themes.

[finanzbeben]

Hi Ying,

Thanks for your answer.

I will try. Is there another method? I thought, it’s only possible to use a child theme.

Kind regards

[Ying]

If you install a child theme just for this, then don’t.

The PHP snippet would work with the parent theme:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/generate_comments_title_output/

You can install a plugin called code snippet, then add this PHP snippet to the plugin.

[finanzbeben]

Actually, that did the job for me. Thank you so much. Better approach.

[Ying]

You are welcome 🙂

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