My ideal comment form will have 3 fields- Name, Location, Comment. I'm using the following bits of code-
comments.php
<?php comment_form(
array(
'fields' => apply_filters( 'comment_form_default_fields', $fields ),
'comment_notes_after' => ' ',
'title_reply' => 'Please feel free to share your home owning hopes, dreams, or concerns?',
'logged_in_as' => '',
)
); ?>
functions.php
<?php
function my_fields($fields) {
$fields['Name'] = '<p>Name</p>';
$fields['Location'] = '<p>Location</p>';
return $fields;
}
add_filter('comment_form_default_fields','my_fields');
?>
As you can see on the live site, that's not working. Any ideas why/how to remedy?
My ideal comment form will have 3 fields- Name, Location, Comment. I'm using the following bits of code-
comments.php
<?php comment_form(
array(
'fields' => apply_filters( 'comment_form_default_fields', $fields ),
'comment_notes_after' => ' ',
'title_reply' => 'Please feel free to share your home owning hopes, dreams, or concerns?',
'logged_in_as' => '',
)
); ?>
functions.php
<?php
function my_fields($fields) {
$fields['Name'] = '<p>Name</p>';
$fields['Location'] = '<p>Location</p>';
return $fields;
}
add_filter('comment_form_default_fields','my_fields');
?>
As you can see on the live site, that's not working. Any ideas why/how to remedy?
Share Improve this question edited Oct 15, 2012 at 2:18 user1255049 asked Oct 15, 2012 at 2:05 user1255049user1255049 2413 gold badges14 silver badges37 bronze badges1 Answer
Reset to default 1I think you're a bit confused about how comment_form works. So let's take a look (this is in wp-includes/comment-template.php):
<?php
function comment_form( $args = array(), $post_id = null ) {
// snip snip
$fields = array(
'author' => '<p class="comment-form-author">' . '<label for="author">' . __( 'Name' ) . '</label> ' . ( $req ? '<span class="required">*</span>' : '' ) .
'<input id="author" name="author" type="text" value="' . esc_attr( $commenter['comment_author'] ) . '" size="30"' . $aria_req . ' /></p>',
'email' => '<p class="comment-form-email"><label for="email">' . __( 'Email' ) . '</label> ' . ( $req ? '<span class="required">*</span>' : '' ) .
'<input id="email" name="email" type="text" value="' . esc_attr( $commenter['comment_author_email'] ) . '" size="30"' . $aria_req . ' /></p>',
'url' => '<p class="comment-form-url"><label for="url">' . __( 'Website' ) . '</label>' .
'<input id="url" name="url" type="text" value="' . esc_attr( $commenter['comment_author_url'] ) . '" size="30" /></p>',
);
$required_text = sprintf( ' ' . __('Required fields are marked %s'), '<span class="required">*</span>' );
$defaults = array(
'fields' => apply_filters( 'comment_form_default_fields', $fields ),
'comment_field' => '<p class="comment-form-comment"><label for="comment">' . _x( 'Comment', 'noun' ) . '</label><textarea id="comment" name="comment" cols="45" rows="8" aria-required="true"></textarea></p>',
'must_log_in' => '<p class="must-log-in">' . sprintf( __( 'You must be <a href="%s">logged in</a> to post a comment.' ), wp_login_url( apply_filters( 'the_permalink', get_permalink( $post_id ) ) ) ) . '</p>',
'logged_in_as' => '<p class="logged-in-as">' . sprintf( __( 'Logged in as <a href="%1$s">%2$s</a>. <a href="%3$s" title="Log out of this account">Log out?</a>' ), admin_url( 'profile.php' ), $user_identity, wp_logout_url( apply_filters( 'the_permalink', get_permalink( $post_id ) ) ) ) . '</p>',
'comment_notes_before' => '<p class="comment-notes">' . __( 'Your email address will not be published.' ) . ( $req ? $required_text : '' ) . '</p>',
'comment_notes_after' => '<p class="form-allowed-tags">' . sprintf( __( 'You may use these <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> tags and attributes: %s' ), ' <code>' . allowed_tags() . '</code>' ) . '</p>',
'id_form' => 'commentform',
'id_submit' => 'submit',
'title_reply' => __( 'Leave a Reply' ),
'title_reply_to' => __( 'Leave a Reply to %s' ),
'cancel_reply_link' => __( 'Cancel reply' ),
'label_submit' => __( 'Post Comment' ),
);
$args = wp_parse_args( $args, apply_filters( 'comment_form_defaults', $defaults ) );
// $args get used to fill out the fields here
}
You need only to override the arguments you want to change. If you want custom fields, simply pass in the fields -- no need to bother with hook into comments_form_default_fields.
Overly simplified example:
<?php comment_form(array(
'fields' => array(
'author' => '<input type="text" name="author" />',
'location' => '<input type="text" name="location" />',
),
));
WordPress will handle saving the author field, but you'll have some more work to do for getting location saved. I wrote a tutorial about this.
Basically: hook into comment_post. Check $_POST for the field, save it:
<?php
add_action( 'comment_post', 'wpse69222_insert_comment', 10, 1 );
function wpse69222_insert_comment( $comment_id )
{
// prolly should do more validation here?
if( isset( $_POST['location'] ) )
update_comment_meta( $comment_id, 'location', esc_attr( $_POST['location'] ) );
}
You might also want admin area fields and a way to edit that location from the admin, but that's another question.