Genesis Framework allows you to customize any part of your child theme and make it your own. One of the easier Genesis customization tricks is to customize the comments section in Genesis and make it your own.
If you’re a Genesis framework user, you will know Genesis has a couple of snippets that you could use in your child theme’s functions.php to change the Call to Action, Notes and Appearance of different parts in the comments. With a little CSS touch, your comments section will look very different from the original.
In Genesis child themes, comments section typically has two parts: ‘Published Comments’ and ‘Leave a Reply’.
Based on your project requirement, you might want to use one of the snippets to customize the comments section in your Genesis child theme.
Let’s take a look at what’s possible with the Genesis snippets:
Published Comments Section
Modify the Comments Headline Text in Genesis
Modify the Comment Gravatar Size in Genesis
Modify Author Says in Genesis
Remove Comment Time and Link Inside the Date Field in Genesis
Leave a Reply Section
Modify Leave a Reply in Genesis
Add A Comment Policy Box in Genesis
Note: You might want to add a little css to highlight the comment policy box. For example: .comment-policy-box { background: #fff; padding: 0 15px;}
Remove Allowed Tags in Genesis
Modify Submit Button in Genesis
Add or remove notes after the comment box in Genesis
Other Parts
Modify Trackbacks Headline text in Genesis