Better Comments allows you to easily style and customize your comment form and comments section, in just a few clicks.

Matt Biscay

Better Comments is a great tool to help you style and customize your comment form and your comments section, in just a few clicks.
It saves you from having to meddle with your child theme’s CSS, just select the options you need and you’re all set.
Here’s a glimpse of what you can do with Better Comments:
Comment form
<ul>
<li>customize the look and feel of your comment form fields: border, radius, background and text colors</li>
<li>match the submit button with the colors of your site: border, radius, background and text and hover colors, dropshadow</li>
<li>highlight the fields as they are selected and typed in</li>
<li>set a Comment Policy section that can sit before or after the comment textarea, and define its look and feel</li>
<li>stack all fields in the comment form, to mimick a mobile view</li>
<li>move the comment field to the bottom of the form</li>
<li>remove the URL field</li>
</ul>
Comment section
<ul>
<li>set a custom default avatar for non-users</li>
<li>allow users to upload their own image avatar, within their profile</li>
<li>define a custom avatar shape among: circle, triangle, rhombus, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon, bevel, rabbet, or message</li>
<li>hide the comment’s date</li>
<li>design the Reply button to your liking: border, radius, background, text, hover colors, padding, text-decoration</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://utopique.net/products/better-comments/" title="Better Comments Premium" rel="nofollow ugc">Better Comments Premium</a> provides other sets of options that allow you to:
<ul>
<li>enable comments quicktags for your audience to format their comments nicely: you can define built-in quicktags (bold, italic, link etc) or define your own quicktags within the admin panel</li>
<li>access time-saving admin controls: oEmbeds in comments, disable admin self-notifications, add referrer to notifications, allow admin to comment on closed to comments posts</li>
<li>reduce SEO errors with smart redirects and keep the SEO juice flowing</li>
<li>increase security levels and reduce spam: shutdown trackbacks, disable comments cookies, discard comments posted with a numeric name, discard people impersonating registered members</li>
<li>disable comments on both built-in post types and your custom post types</li>
<li>remove comments completely from both built-in post types and your custom post types</li>
</ul>
New features are added on a regular basis.

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