How do we remove the H3 tag for the reply-title I.D

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We’re doing some SEO tweaking to a site, and our SEO guru informs us that we need to remove the <h3> tags from the #reply-title element, output from line 1554 of comments-template.php. It’s the header text for the comments form.

as seen here :

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<?php if ( comments_open( $post_id ) ) : ?>
        <?php do_action( 'comment_form_before' ); ?>
        <div id="respond">
            <h3 id="reply-title"><?php comment_form_title( $args['title_reply'], $args['title_reply_to'] ); ?> <small><?php cancel_comment_reply_link( $args['cancel_reply_link'] ); ?></small></h3>
            <?php if ( get_option( 'comment_registration' ) && !is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

We’re aware of the numerous filters and hooks associated with the comment_form();, but that <h3> is hard-coded.

for this, we’ve been unable to come up w/ a sustainable solution to replacing the <h3 id="reply-title"></h3> with just <div id="reply-title"></div>.

it’s starting to look like the quickest / easiest option may be to just unhook the call to comment_form(); and hook in a copy of our own function, which would be just a copy, with a simple change to that one line.

But in the meantime, it never hurts to poll the community. Any ideas on how to modify that markup in a sustainable ( non-core hackable ) way?

It should be noted that this can’t be solved w/ some CSS or JS. The actual, crawlable DOM has to be dealt with.

thanks again stack.

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  1. Today there is a native option to do this without hacking the core, or doing tricky filters with output buffer. You just need to use the filter 'comment_form_defaults' and edit the values from 'title_reply_before' and 'title_reply_after' key:

    add_filter( 'comment_form_defaults', 'custom_reply_title' );
function custom_reply_title( $defaults ){
  $defaults['title_reply_before'] = '<span id="reply-title" class="h4 comment-reply-title">';
  $defaults['title_reply_after'] = '</span>';
  return $defaults;
}

    In this exemple, i have wrapped the title with a span tag that have no impact on SEO with a class named .h4, with a same style that the original h4 tag has:

    h4, .h4 {
/* styles */
}

    This way, you can keep the styling from a header without messing up with your SEO. (:

    If you are using Bootstrap, this class already exists and are styled the same way i mentioned above to all headers. From H1 to H6 and the respective classes.

  2. Had a similar problem, short blog entries found by google etc. showed the comment reply title instead of the blog entry content.

    This solution buffers the comment form html and replaces the <h3 id="reply-title"..> with another tag before printing it:

    function my_comment_form_before() {
    ob_start();
}
add_action( 'comment_form_before', 'my_comment_form_before' );

function my_comment_form_after() {
    $html = ob_get_clean();
    $html = preg_replace(
        '/<h3 id="reply-title"(.*)>(.*)</h3>/',
        '<p id="reply-title"1>2</p>',
        $html
    );
    echo $html;
}
add_action( 'comment_form_after', 'my_comment_form_after' );

    Note: In older WordPress versions the html was <h3 id="reply-title">, since 3.6 or so it is <h3 id="reply-title" class="comment-reply-title">, both cases are covered in above code.

  3. There isn’t a way to change that particular <h3> element without hacking core (and you already know not to do that), but you still have the option of creating your own comments form or using a comment plugin that has the markup you want.

    If you absolutely, positively don’t want to use another method, you could capture the form’s HTML output into a ridiculously long string, do a preg_replace on it to change the offending <h3>, then echo that stringified HTML form to the DOM.

  4. Not exactly sure which text you are referring to but one of these may help or at least give you some idea:

    add_filter( 'comment_author_says_text', 'sp_comment_author_says_text' );
function sp_comment_author_says_text() {
    return 'author says';
}


add_filter( 'comment_form_defaults', 'sp_comment_form_defaults' );
function sp_comment_form_defaults( $defaults ) {

    $defaults['title_reply'] = __( 'Leave a Comment' );
    return $defaults;

}

    Source

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