Feb 25 2011

How to Change Genesis's Speak Your Mind Comments Heading

For one of my sites, I wanted a more generic, gentler comment heading, so I needed to remove and/or change "Speak Your Mind." Here's how I did that.

[php]add_filter('genesis_comment_form_args', 'custom_comment_form_args');
function custom_comment_form_args($args) {
$args['title_reply'] = 'Leave a Comment'; // $args['title_reply'] = ''; for total removal
return $args;
}[/php]

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Comments

trisha says

March 4, 2011 at 9:55 am

Thankyou! this was exactly what i had to use this morning. Worked like a charm.

trisha

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Travis Smith says

March 10, 2011 at 8:28 am

Awesome! Thanks!

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Affan says

May 30, 2011 at 8:00 pm

hi, sorry i have only a little knowledge with genesis since i’m new to it.
so, where exactly should i place this code? which file?

thanks

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- wpsmith says
  
  May 30, 2011 at 8:26 pm
  
  Hello Affan,
  
  You can place this in your functions.php file below the require_once( TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/lib/init.php’ ); statement.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Travis
  
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Mary says

June 6, 2011 at 6:55 pm

Thanks!!!

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steve says

July 29, 2011 at 9:31 pm

Tried that exactly in the Serenity theme and the site disappeared.! REplaced the code and site still won’t show up!
Help!

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- wpsmith says
  
  July 29, 2011 at 10:06 pm
  
  Usually that means that your file was corrupted some how. Copy the guts of functions.php in a new file save it as _functions.php. Delete functions.php and then rename _functions.php to functions.php. And re-upload. If you added other code, you may want to check that for typos and missing parenthesis, comma, or semi-colon.
  
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Monika says

October 7, 2012 at 11:55 am

Thank you very much! 🙂

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Garrett says

October 16, 2012 at 10:10 am

Hi there this is kinda of off topic but I was wondering if blogs use
WYSIWYG editors or if you have to manually code with HTML.
I’m starting a blog soon but have no coding know-how so I wanted to get advice from someone with experience. Any help would be enormously appreciated!

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- Travis Smith says
  
  November 2, 2012 at 1:42 am
  
  Hello WordPress uses a WYSIWYG editor called TinyMCE. There are also plugins that can expand this or replace it for another if you’d like.
  
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Chris Egglesotn says

February 27, 2013 at 11:11 pm

Hey Travis, wondering if you could help…
Is there a way to change the Speak Your Mind text based on the post type?
For example. I’m building a site for a cook, one post type is recipes, would like to have a different comment title then I would have for the blog post comments.

Thanks

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Saliha Ali says

July 22, 2013 at 10:05 pm

Hi !!! Thanks for sharing this wonderful post .. I was wondering if there is some way to remove the ‘website’ option from speak your mind area ??

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Lobo says

February 24, 2014 at 7:43 am

This to be inserted in functions.php, and you have removed the “website field”

add_filter(‘comment_form_default_fields’, ‘url_filtered’);
function url_filtered($fields)
{
if(isset($fields[‘url’]))
unset($fields[‘url’]);
return $fields;
}

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