Discqus or Wordpress Comments

[chules+ 4]

I have been working on my wordpress site and have buddypress and bbpress working well. I looked at the commenting system and it did not match the PlatformPro demo because the demo is using Disqus. I really like Disqus however I'm not sure why Pagelines is using it on the PlatformPro demo? So here's the dilemma. Disqus is great as it's rich in features and styled correctly. However if your are using Buddypress you basically have 2 different user login and profile systems and need integration. You wouldn't want your users to register for your site, then register for disqus managing separate avatars, etc. This integration looks to be complex and possibly expensive requiring paid memberships at higher cost levels to Disqus. If I didn't have Buddypress installed it would be a no-brainer with disqus. So I'm back to working with native comments and have a few questions. First, I wish to have the comments box at the top then followed by the comments similar to discuss. Anyone know how to do this. Second, where do I change the text "Leave A Reply" to "Add New Comment" and some of the other text as well. Thank you - mark

[catrina 103]

First, I wish to have the comments box at the top then followed by the comments similar to discuss.

I'm certain this could be done using CSS. Do you want the exact style/colors as Disqus? Also, what other text do you want to adjust other than "Leave a Reply"?

[dougsguides 0]

I would also like to know and where to change 'Leave a Reply' to 'Add new comment'

[kastelic 6]

To move the comment box above the comments: Warning, this involves editing a core template file, so you want to make a backup and a note to yourself to redo the edit each time you upgrade. Open comments.php in your theme root. Near the bottom you see the line:

comment_form();

around line 52? Cut it and paste it right after the

endif;

on line 21 and before the

if (have_comments() ) :

line. Usually, you can override template files in the base theme so that you don't have to worry about messing with your core files, but I'm not sure if you can with this particular one.