Comments: Replace Headline for SEO Reasons

Hey David,

That specific text would need you to use a child theme, unfortunately: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/using-child-theme/

Then you would copy the comments.php file from the parent theme, and paste it into your child theme.

Then you can manually change those <h3> elements to whatever you like.

I'm not sure it's overly worth the hassle, as those <h3> elements certainly shouldn't hurt your site when it comes to SEO.

Let me know if you need more info :)

Hi Tom,

thanks for your help.
I followed your approach and I found the “X Comments for ‘Article X’” headline - in line 44 to 62. But that is the only h3 tag in the whole file. Where to find “Write a comment” (H3)?

Thanks and best,
David

You could try this:

add_filter( 'comment_form_defaults', function( $defaults ) {
    $defaults['title_reply_before'] = '<h3 id="reply-title" class="comment-reply-title">';
    $defaults['title_reply_after'] = '</h3>';

    return $defaults;
} );

Hi Tom,

I had to replace the h3's in the snippet to p's as I wanted to get rid of the headlines. But then the snippet works perfectly.

I also decided to make this the only adjustment as I can configure it via my customs functions plugin. Then I just have one comment h3 which should be perfectly fine. ;-)

Thanks and best,
David

Awesome, glad I could help :)