Recently, I corresponded with someone who need to port the Genesis comments into a shortcode for a custom post type template (I'm assuming). However, doing it seemed challenging and a lot of hack work, but he reminded me of the genesis template part, which made it very doable.

Since I thought this was fairly novel idea, I thought I'd post about here.

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remove_action( 'genesis_after_post', 'genesis_get_comments_template' );

function ts_genesis_comments_shortcode() {
ob_start();
genesis_get_comments_template();
$tsComments = ob_get_clean();
return $tsComments;
}
add_shortcode ('ts-genesis-comments', 'ts_genesis_comments_shortcode');
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First we need to remove the comments template via remove_action( 'genesis_after_post', 'genesis_get_comments_template' );. Then we can get the comments via output buffering (ob_start() and ob_get_clean()).

This is extremely easy and only involves only a few lines of code that can go into functions.php.

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add_action( 'genesis_before_comments' , 'wps_post_type_check' );
function wps_post_type_check () {
if ( is_single() ) {
if ( have_comments() ) {
remove_action( 'genesis_comment_form', 'genesis_do_comment_form' );
add_action( 'genesis_list_comments', 'genesis_do_comment_form' , 5 );
}
}
}
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If you do not check for comments, then simply removing the form and adding it at the top of the list will remove the form altogether on single pages/posts that have no comments. We do this with a simple function, have_comments().