[Resolved] Comments: Replace Headline for SEO Reasons

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  • #913419
    David

    Hi there,

    I just purchased GeneratePress and I’m really looking forward to relaunching the websites.

    I want to follow up a discussion I opened at the WordPress.org forums (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-headline-h1-and-h2/) regarding the headline attribution in the comments section. There are two headlines I want to convert to normal text for SEO reasons.

    Tom also marked out that there is no way for a custom function – which definitely would be the preferred way. If someone nevertheless has an idea – please let me know! 🙂

    If the child theme way remains, this is where I got stuck:

    – If there is a comment: “X Comments for ‘Article X’” (H3) => Found in the comments.php, class=”comments-title”. Change to div / span is easy possible.
    – Every page: “Write a comment” (H3) => Not found in the comments.php – Where to adjust or edit it?

    Thanks and best,
    David

    #913783
    Tom
    Lead Developer
    Lead Developer

    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 🙂

    #914690
    David

    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

    #914827
    Tom
    Lead Developer
    Lead Developer

    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;
    } );
    #915101
    David

    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

    #915439
    Tom
    Lead Developer
    Lead Developer

    Awesome, glad I could help 🙂

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