Summary: The comment form in WordPress can be utilized for some very important things. Not only does a WordPress comment form encourage your website users to participate in a discussion, but it is also an important tool for overall user engagement.This is why it is important to customize a WordPress comment form to insure you get the most use out of it.Now, there are a couple of ways that you can go about customizing the layout of your comments. Today I am going to look at both ways to do this, so you will have a choice.For the easier way we will look at a plugin that will allow you to design the form several different ways. This should help boost user engagement on your website.Toward the end of this tutorial, I will also give you a few pieces of code that will allow you to make some other customizations should you choose to go more advanced with it.Customize WordPress Comment Form Using a PluginFirst off, let’s take a look at how we can perform WordPress form customizations using a plugin. For this, I have found a great little plugin called Advanced Comment Form.This plugin is flexible and easy to use. It allows you to customize a WordPress form right from the backend of your website, without having to worry about placing code anywhere.Among other things, you will be able to:Remove Form FieldsChange Form FieldsChange TextSwitch Layout StylesUse ShortcodeInstall and Activate the PluginThe first thing you want to do is install and activate the Advanced Comment Form plugin on your website.Once the plugin has been installed and activated within the WordPress admin area of your website, click on Comments > Comment Form. This will take you to the main setup page of the plugin.Here is where we will customize a WordPress comment form.On the main setting’s page of the Advanced Comment Form Plugin, you can start to make the changes you want and start your customization.The first section is titled “Fields.” In the “Fields” section, you can remove URL fields and also remove email fields if you so choose.You can see each selection is very detailed and tells you exactly what will happen if you click on the relevant checkboxes.The second section you will see is titled “Texts.” In this section you will be able to add or remove text from your WordPress comment form. The text fields include “texts before the form” and texts after the form.”Don’t be afraid to use the custom HTML tags and attributes the plugin suggests. This will only serve to spice up the form and give you even more customization options.The third and final section you see is titled “Layouts.” This section is pretty straightforward. Clicking on the checkbox will give you a two-column form layout style. It is a... You are listening to the topic about "How To Customize a WordPress Comment Form", if you want to read the full article, please visit https://geniuswp.com or the link in the description.
