Comments on: WordPress wp_list_comments()

By: Adding Comment Counts to Theme Files :: The English Guy Web Design

Adding Comment Counts to Theme Files :: The English Guy Web Design — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:17:07 +0000

[...] Scriptgoddess has a good write-up of how to use wp_list_comments() with callback; [...]

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:55:43 +0000

No – don't delete that part. The assumption is that you are placing this in the middle of a functions.php file – which already has a starting – in the middle of that function we're basically "echoing" some HTML (not by explicitly saying echo "this"; but by closing the php tag – putting in the html and then opening up the php again to end the function… Not sure if that makes sense or not … either way… don't delete it

By: Elliot

Elliot — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:55:18 +0000

Not sure if this is just me, as im not too amazing with this but at the end you have:

}

Im assuming that

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Sun, 30 May 2010 01:20:23 +0000

Hi,

I just edited the documentation at http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_comments#Parameters to change the "Not recommended" to "Use with caution", which I think is more appropriate. You know any one can do this right?

We'll see if they let it stand. Note that the new default theme in WordPress 3.0 (Twenty Ten) uses the callback function (to allow child themes to override it with their own code).

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:44:17 +0000

So I was testing this out to see if maybe something changed in the latest version – I had a test wordpress setup – and just dumped the mycomment function in the functions.php file and got the same error you did. But what I realized is that I had actually placed it BELOW the close php tag just above it… ie. the function looked like this before I put the new code in:
…last function in functions.php actually is printing something to screen…

And right here is where I dumped my function…

do you see the problem? (the php file is close just above where I put my function… so in that last line, I had to remove the close php:
NEW FUNCTION GOES HERE..

That may not have been the same problem you're having – but you never know. It's just funny that it gave the same response you describe. Otherwise, once i fixed that, everything worked fine…

By: KDesign

KDesign — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:05:10 +0000

Hi, thanks for the tutorial. I'm having problems though that I can't seem to find an answer to on the web.

When I follow the example in the Codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_comments#Comments_Only_With_A_Custom_Comment_Display, as you've done in your article, I keep getting an error message after updating functions.php.

It says: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home4/popsicl2/public_html/wp-content/themes/magadine12/functions.php on line 26

Have you ever had this problem? I'm not sure where the problem would be seeing as I copied and pasted everything exactly, and I don't know if there are other files I should be looking at besides comments.php and functions.php. My functions.php file doesn't even have any other code in there besides this custom callback one.

Any help would be much appreciated! And if it helps, I'm using version 2.9.2. Thanks.

By: Cenay : Wordpress Blogging Coach

Cenay : Wordpress Blogging Coach — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:32:15 +0000

Interesting. I am working with a new theme that I believe BREAKS the silly comments. I am hoping this information will help me find the dang thing.

Implemented the new updates to the functions.php file first, along with the new call in my themes comments.php file. The interesting part is that bypasses the HTML to standard HTML didn't fix it.

Guess I am going to have to break down and buy the PHP debugger I have been eyeballing and trace where it goes wrong.

Thanks for your insights and help.

By: Scott H

Scott H — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:45:04 +0000

The code block you provided for functions.php is missing the php start tag at the beginning and a php end tag at the end of the code.

I'm guessing WP ate them up

By: Scott H

Scott H — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:17:41 +0000

Thanks for saving the day again.

I'm working on a new WP install after not having done one in a while and I'm finding WP's hide the html code from the kids attitude pretty annoying.

By: Gerrit Fries

Gerrit Fries — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:55:55 +0000

Thanks a lot! I am building my own blog right now – so this was nice tip to use my own gravatar function (which stores image on my server) on comments.