Comment Functionality

In this section, we'll add the custom comment functionality.

Let's open up single.php and go right under endif. We'll say <?php comments_template(); ?>:

   <?php endif; ?>   <?php comments_template(); ?></div>

Let's save this and reload. We have our comment section now:

Let's say Great Post, click on Post Comment, and it works!

Now this will work as far as functionality goes, but it doesn't look too good, so I want to show you how we can customize this.

We'll create a new page, or a new file, and we'll call this comments.php. If we go back now and reload you'll see there's nothing here, it's reading from this file; if we ...

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