WordPress Modification

[Xarzu]

I want to configure my WordPress blog. I want to remove the comment input fields on the blog post. The comments themselves will be inputted by another means through a joined forum database. How do I remove the comment input fields? I am told it has to do with opening the single.php file in a text editor. Is that right?

[Ryan]

It entirely depends on your theme.

There is a PHP function which most people use for displaying the comment form but I can't remember the name of it right now, perhaps wp_list_comments(), or perhaps that just displays the comments, not the form?

[Otto]

The comments form is usually in the theme's comments.php file. It's not output by WordPress, but the theme does it.

Just edit comments.php and comment that section out.

[Xarzu]

So I guess I should make sure the theme I have is the one I am going to keep before I play around with this.

I looked at my blog again and I know better what I want to do and I assume I will open the same php file to do it.

At the beginning, when you make a wordpress entry, this hyperlink is "No Comments" but I suspect as comments are added it changes. If I have the comments in WordPress tied to a BBPress forum and I want this link to go to the forum, how do I modify this link in WORDPress. Go to http://www.arguemax.com and scroll to the bottom to see what I mean. I want to modify this hyperlink:

[Jeffro]

Heh, sounds like you want tight integration between the two. In fact, this idea of replacing the comment system in WordPress with bbPress was an idea Matt proposed a few months ago. You can read more about it here.

What Is The Immediate Future Of bbPress? Weblog Tools Collection

As for your question, I've heard using WordPress stuff in bbPress is not that hard but going the other way around is tricky.

[Xarzu]

Well, now I have a theme installed that I know I am going to keep. It matches what I have in bbPress too. After going over a few scenarios, I now think I will just post a link to the forum in the blog. Now I have a better idea and a simpler modification I want to make in WordPress.

Here is the simple modification to my WordPress blog. Will you please tell me how I can do this? When I new person makes his first comment to the blog and he clicks on the comment link, he is taken to a new page or form just before he is taken to the place where he can enter his name, email address, and the text. How can I do this?


Let me give you an example of what I mean. Suppose I charge for membership on my web site and users have to first sign up with paypal. This would be done just one time and only for new users. If someone wanted to post a comment on my blog, the process for registration would require an additional page that they would see prior to them making their first comment.

Can you please tell me how I would do this?

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Update:

Something like this I guess:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...subscriptions/

It only has one star, tho'.