Change the Title of the “Comments” Area

By default, the title of the area where visitors can leave comments on a post or page on your site is “Comments,” as in the image below:

comments before
Logical enough.

But suppose you wanted it to say something more creative. Here’s how to change the word “Comments” to something different.

Let’s change that “Comments” title to read “What Others Are Saying:”

1 Go to Appearance -> Editor in your WordPress dashboard.

In the list of theme files, on the right, click on “Theme Functions” to open your functions.php file.

2Enter the following code in your functions.php file:

add_filter('genesis_title_comments', 'custom_comment_text');
function custom_comment_text() {
return ('<h3>What Others Are Saying:</h3>');
}

Make sure to add the code after this line in your functions.php file:
require_once(TEMPLATEPATH.’/lib/init.php’);

3 Now go look at your site. The “Comments” title should be replaced with our text, looking something like this:

comments after