By Spokenbird on

Hello,

I was wondering how I can update how the comments in Drupal 7 are displayed, in a way that is not lost when I update core. A Google search had previously pointed me towards updating comment.tpl.php in /modules which worked for my needs (specifically I wanted to move the submitted by from above the comment to underneath the comment, so I just moved the div in comment.tpl). However, when I update core, it says to delete everything outside of /sites, which of course means /modules gets deleted and I have to redo my template changes every time I update core. Is there any way I can update core and avoid this annoyance?

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VM’s picture

VM commented

copy core tpl.php files to your theme.
Edit the tpl.php files as you wish
clear database cache of edited tpl.php isn't overriding the default

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Spokenbird commented

Thanks for the reply!

Do you mean to just copy comments.tpl.php from /modules and move it into my theme folder within /sites? If I am using a subtheme, would I put it in the subtheme folder?

Does this get negated when I update the Theme?

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RWill commented

Edited tpl.php will go into your sub-theme if it's the default theme. Your changes won't be lost if you are using a sub-theme since updates are not applied to a sub-theme.

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Spokenbird commented

Thanks!

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RWill commented

Hello,

You can use theme hook to 'format comments of a certain node type'. comment--node-type.tpl.php file will reside at [document root]/sites/all/themes/[custom_theme]/templates

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