Recently, one of our users asked us how to change the ‘Reply’ text in WordPress comments. By default, most WordPress sites have a reply button below comments so that users can respond to a comment. In this article, we will show you how to easily change the “Reply” text in WordPress comments.
Why Change The Reply Text in WordPress Comments?
Comments are an easy way to boost user engagement. There is a lot you can do to improve WordPress comments.
For example, you can style your comment layout, change comment form style, comment text field to bottom, etc.
The reply link below a comment is like a call to action. Just like any other call for actions on your website, language, colors, size, and placement can all compel users to click.
By changing the simple boring reply to something more interesting, you can make it more prominent and attractive.
Let’s see how to easily change ‘Reply’ text in WordPress comments.
Changing ‘Reply’ Text in WordPress Comments
For this tutorial, you will need to add some code to your WordPress files. If you have not done it before, then you may want to take a look at our beginner’s guide to pasting snippets from the web into WordPress.
You need to add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin.
function wpb_comment_reply_text( $link ) {
$link = str_replace( 'Reply', 'Change to This Text', $link );
return $link;
}
add_filter( 'comment_reply_link', 'wpb_comment_reply_text' );
Don’t forget to replace ‘Change to This Text’ in the code with whatever text you want to use.
That’s all, you can now view any post with comments on your website, and you will find the text you added instead of ‘Reply’.
We hope this article helped you change the “Reply” Text in WordPress. You may also want to try these 11 ways to get more comments on your WordPress blog posts.
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Anwar says
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Rafat Mahmud says
Excellent article and resources for me
Ezekiel says
Can we replace the wordpress blog post comment style with woocommerce comment style? Actually, I want to use the woocommerce’s inbuilt review system. And I don’t want to install any custom review plugin as I am in love with my theme’s UI.
Friederik says
Hi,
Thx for the article, but it doesn’t work for me. I have copy and pasted the code in my child them functions.php file, but to no avail. Any suggestions?
divp says
thanks for sharing worth reading…properly Explained all things
Dmytro says
It doesn’t work for me. Replacing with “Leave a comment”))?> in comments.php did the trick.
Jhon Velez says
excellent contribution, thanks
Connie says
Why not edit the Language file?
WPBeginner Support says
Language files are automatically updated, it is not recommended to edit them manually as those changes could get overwritten when an updated language file is available.
Admin
Connie says
that is right, but still it is the best and performance-friendly way
and it is possible to manage the update of language files…
1) an example:
there is such an annoying translation in German:
“Hinterlassen Sie einen Kommentar” for “Leave a comment”
and “hinterlassen” in german also has a bad connotation and nobody talks like that
so I have to edit that file everytime after an update or manage that the language files won’t be updated automatically…
2) if you edit the function.php of a file, that will be overwritten as well unless you use a child.theme
so you should have mentioned that as well… ;=)
I suggest to post about childthemes here in the near future, …
Cheers, Connie