drumelt

I have built my own child theme for TwentyTen using your very helpful tutorials. But, now TwentyTen has been updated! So my customized loop.php and single.php files are out of date. I don’t know how important it is to search for and make the corrections/updates in the new loop.php and single.php files for TwentyTen, but it seems to me that all the advertising about how wonderful a child theme is because it doesn’t break on updates is phony. The new TwenetyTen has updated css and lots of other stuff that doesn’t get updated in my theme.
Does anyone know of a simple way to deal with this?

The advantage is that you have not changed the core WordPress file, so that your changes will not be erased by an update.

The best way to change the wording “Leave a reply” is to use the filter.
To make it say “Submit a comment:”, place this code in your functions.php file:


function comment_reform ($arg) {
$arg['title_reply'] = __('Submit a comment:');
return $arg;
}
add_filter('comment_form_defaults','comment_reform');