comment-template.php Help

just wondering why there is ‘li-comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>’ in your functions.php in the first place;

instead of changing it, you might be able to add ‘comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>’

(details depend on the exact code of this area – if you like you can paste the code of your functions.php into a https://wordpress.pastebin.com/ and post the link to it here)

if you are working with a free theme, you can post the name and dwonload link of this theme here as well.

Thanks for your reply.

I’m using the Starkers theme: https://starkerstheme.com/

The code for the comments is in functions.php. The comments function is as follows:

if ( ! function_exists( 'twentyten_comment' ) ) :

function twentyten_comment( $comment, $args, $depth ) {
	$GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment;
	switch ( $comment->comment_type ) :
		case '' :
	?>
	<li <?php comment_class(); ?> id="li-comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>">
		<div id="comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>">
		<div class="comment-author vcard">
			<?php echo get_avatar( $comment, 40 ); ?>
			<?php printf( __( '%s <span class="says">says:</span>', 'twentyten' ), sprintf( '<cite class="fn">%s</cite>', get_comment_author_link() ) ); ?>
		</div><!-- .comment-author .vcard -->
		<?php if ( $comment->comment_approved == '0' ) : ?>
			<em><?php _e( 'Your comment is awaiting moderation.', 'twentyten' ); ?></em>
			<br />
		<?php endif; ?>

		<div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"><a href="<?php echo esc_url( get_comment_link( $comment->comment_ID ) ); ?>">
			<?php
				/* translators: 1: date, 2: time */
				printf( __( '%1$s at %2$s', 'twentyten' ), get_comment_date(),  get_comment_time() ); ?></a><?php edit_comment_link( __( '(Edit)', 'twentyten' ), ' ' );
			?>
		</div><!-- .comment-meta .commentmetadata -->

		<div class="comment-body"><?php comment_text(); ?></div>

		<div class="reply">
			<?php comment_reply_link( array_merge( $args, array( 'depth' => $depth, 'max_depth' => $args['max_depth'] ) ) ); ?>
		</div><!-- .reply -->
	</div><!-- #comment-##  -->

	<?php
			break;
		case 'pingback'  :
		case 'trackback' :
	?>
	<li class="post pingback">
		<p><?php _e( 'Pingback:', 'twentyten' ); ?> <?php comment_author_link(); ?><?php edit_comment_link( __('(Edit)', 'twentyten'), ' ' ); ?></p>
	<?php
			break;
	endswitch;
}
endif;

You can see that the first two lines of the html are an li with id=”li-comment-<?php comment_ID(); and a div with id=”comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>”.

This all works correctly, apart from when you click reply to a particular post… the form header doesn’t change to ‘Leave a Reply to [correct username]’.

Curiously, if I change the id of the div to “li-comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>” it does change the form header appropriately. But then the form isn’t moved up to the correct comment!

Bump!