Make wordpress comments work with include templatepath

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1. Short answer: you can’t.

   Longer answer:

   You can include comments.php as a template-part file inside another template, via:

   get_template_part( 'comments.php' )
   

   …but that won’t actually make comments work, because the comments_template() template tag does far more than merely include the comments.php template-part file. In order to make comments actually work when using get_template_part() as opposed to comments_template(), you’d need to duplicate all of the functions performed by comments_template(). And if you need to duplicate all of that code in order to make comments work, you might as well just use the function itself.

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2. That wont work because we cannot include the comments.php file as a template file. Our comments.php file doesn’t contain the necessary codes to do SQL operations on database and fetch the comments to display.

   So instead including that file as a template file we should call the function comments_template() to show the comments.

   WordPress uses comments_template() function to get the file and display the comments, if we don’t provide file variable wordpress uses default comments.php to process the result.

   Note –

   If you’re curious about how to load a different comment template then here’s the code

   <?php comments_template( '/comments2.php' ); ?> 
   

   Reference – Comments_template

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