Is it safe to edit wp-includes/comments-template.php

CMS & WordPress
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Hiya all,

I need to edit the comments displayed on the website. I did some research and I found that in order to edit the form I have to edit wp-includes/comments-template.php. What concerns me is that this file is in the core files, an update to the CMS will replace the file causing me to loose all the changes.

What should I do.

I basically need to edit the title of Leave Reply, I wanted it in a H3, the issue could probably be resolved in CSS, but my goal is to understand WP better.


Kind regards,
Sega

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You should be able to edit the comment form by editing “comments.php” in your themes directory. :slight_smile:

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You can’t edit the appearance though. You can only edit the appearance though the comments-template.php. I heard you can use minor scripts to do what I wanted, but it’s not as flexible.

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I found the solution on the WP site, http://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-leave-a-reply-title, it appear the edits need to be done on the function.php file.