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#29624

It’s working. Many, many thanks to Prasanna and Syahir.

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#29622

Tried it again with no change – you can see for yourself at http://www.thesafetybloke.com

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#29620

Syahir, thanks for the help but sorry it didn’t work. All that happened was that the code appeared at the top of the screen with “logged in” appearing as anchor text which, when clicked, turned the whole screen white – had to delete the functions.php file through cPanel in order to access the site.

Any other suggestions?

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#29617

Syahir, sorry but I don’t fully understand what you mean. I’ve sort of got it but not fully. Are you saying that there’s a way of putting the code somewhere in the child theme that will then alter the code in the comments.php file without me actually having to go into the comments.php file? If that’s the case then I don’t know how to do it and I’d really appreciate some instruction.

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#29615

Prasanna, Thanks for responding so quickly.

I don’t want to use the WordPress default because it’s ugly, it doesn’t contain the fields that I wish to collect, it doesn’t provide for retrieval of forgotten passwords nor modification of user passwords by users and did I mention it was ugly.

From what I understand of what you’re saying is that this code needs to go into the comments.phd file but that will be overwritten every time we have an update and the way to prevent that happening is to use a child theme but there’s not much point in that because I can’t put the the contents.php into the child theme.

Have I got it right? Sounds like a rock and a hard place to me