Checkbox doesn’t show up in comments

Or, as a plan b, is there any possibility to insert the checkbox to the theme manually?

I can see it works already?

Works for the contact form, but not for the comments. It’s disabled there to retain funtionality of the comments form.

Is it fixable?
Thanks!

I have exactly the same problem, activated and no checkbox, but an error when submitting.
For instance here https://spoorzoeker.petereyckerman.be/2017/10/22/silhouette-portret-als-ex-libris-baron-c-e-von-moll

I have the same problem as well.

Are you all using a plugin that takes over the comment form?

If not, please make sure the following filter is added to your comment forms:
comment_form_submit_field

If this is not added to your comment form the plugin is unable to hook into it and add the required checkbox.

Contact your theme developer for any assistance regarding this filter. He/She will know what to do.

Hi Donny,

thanks for your assistance.
I’m not using a plugin for comments, but the theme is rather old – so this might be the problem.

I there any information how to mark the comment_form_submit_field? I can’t figure out how to add that to my existing theme.

Any help is highly appreciated, because there is no theme deveoper involved.

Thanks and best,
David

Thank you, that was it!
I am using an ancient theme and it had a custom comment form.
Replaced it with <?php comment_form();?> and it works.

Peter

From which line of code to which line of code? ??
Or does your comments.php just contains the simple line?

No comments.php contains more code, and it depends on your theme, only replace the form itself.
That is everything between the form tags including these tags:
<form … </form>

@petere; That’s the trick! There are still a lot of themes having a custom comments form. That means we’re unable to hook into it.

@david181; Please contact your theme developer for any assistance. Otherwise follow the instructions by @petere. Or check out the following documentation by ordPress: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/comment_form

Hi there,

thanks for the tips.
I replaced everything between <form> und </form> with <?php comment_form(); ?> – and it works now.

Just a bit styling was needed.
Thanks!

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by David181.

Hi,
I have the same problem. I have a very old theme and I need your plugin. I did the instructions in your comments and checkbox appears, but I noticed that old comments aren’t shown (it counts for example “3 comments” but there is no wy to display them).
Have you any suggestions?
Thank you