Hey everybody!
In this short article I will explain how I designed my wordpress theme's comment section with bootstrap 3.0.2. For the most recent changes, you find my theme on github. If you want to see a live demo, just inspect the comment form on this site. It uses exactly this bootstrap styled form I am discussing here.
In order to follow the content's of this blog post, you should have basic experience with PHP and HTML/CSS.
The Problem
The tricky question here is, whether we can use a action or filter hook
to manipulate the comment form to our liking, or if we have to use and
modify the original comment_form() function directly. Our goal is to
decorate the form with some bootstrap widget classes and use the
bootstrap grid layout. We want to obtain a horizontal form, such as
demonstrated here.
After a quick search, I found the function comment_form( $args,
$post_id); in the
wordpress codex. While it looks promising on the first glimpse, some
hindrances become clear after further thinking through. The function's
description says:
Most strings and form fields may be controlled through the $args array passed into the function …
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