Comments on: How to Remove “Says” From WordPress 2.7 Threaded Comments

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:03:11 +0000

Hi Ryan,

Thank you! And I’m really glad you are using a theme that made it so much easier to remove the word says :-)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:33:28 +0000

I have no training in html or CSS, no education whatsoever but I followed your instructions closely enough and met success, modifying for my own theme.

I needed only a single step (after reading along chain of instructions from the comments_php file through the functions_php file), I went to:

/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/functions/comment_functions.php

and deleted:

says:

…and met success. The earlier steps that Kim directs you to were already in place in the Genesis theme but I don’t know how that relates to default or any other themes.

I am learning as I go – as a writer learning WP in order to blog, rather than a programmer or WP-guy writing a blog – that there are more and more solutions to problems as these tools become more developed and more people use them.

My thanks out to Kim for sharing this, and to all those that helped her arrive at this solution. This was very helpful.

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:44:07 +0000

Hi Shelly – It could be a variety of things causing the problem. I originally set this up when using 2.7.1 I have upgraded to each version and am now running 2.9.1 and am not having any problems with the code.

By: shelly

shelly — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:10:01 +0000

Doesn’t work for me on 2.9.1 — it used to work at some point, now it’s either error messages or the word “says” stays. I can’t believe the waste of time this is turning out to be.

By: i

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:53:14 +0000

I did as Arun Basil Lal wrote:

1. Find the file comment-template.php

and removed the “says”
Thanks for the answer.

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:01:04 +0000

Does “says” show up in the comments? In 2.7 says didn’t show up in comments.php either so it wasn’t possible to remove it straight from the file and this is why I used these methods instead.

By: i

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:47:13 +0000

Im with 2.9.1 and in Default theme in comments.php there is no “says” or display, nothing

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:49:48 +0000

Hi Mustafa – Thanks for letting me know. I will come up with a better way to present the code.

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:52:22 +0000

Thanks for the tip Kim! However, as previously mentioned the code is breaking the newer versions of Wordpress. I think it has to do more with your site than anything else.

You can see that there are problems with the code:

There should be a ? before php.

The “<" and ?php should be together on the same line.

I think it would be best if you uploaded a text file with the full code instead of outputting it via a pre tag.

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:51:32 +0000

Hi Filemon – Great! I’m glad it helped.