wp-includes/comment-template.php:1417Loads the comment template specified in $file.
$filestringoptional'/comments.php'$separate_commentsbooloptionalfalse4 hooks fire while comments_template() runs, in this order:
Filters the arguments used in the top level comments query.
Filters the arguments used to query comments in comments_template().
Filters the path to the theme template file used for the comments template.
function comments_template( $file = '/comments.php', $separate_comments = false ) { global $wp_query, $withcomments, $post, $wpdb, $id, $comment, $user_login, $user_identity, $overridden_cpage, $wp_stylesheet_path, $wp_template_path; if ( ! ( is_single() || is_page() || $withcomments ) || empty( $post ) ) { return; } if ( empty( $file ) ) { $file = '/comments.php'; } $req = get_option( 'require_name_email' ); /* * Comment author information fetched from the comment cookies. */ $commenter = wp_get_current_commenter(); /* * The name of the current comment author escaped for use in attributes. * Escaped by sanitize_comment_cookies(). */ $comment_author = $commenter['comment_author']; /* * The email address of the current comment author escaped for use in attributes. * Escaped by sanitize_comment_cookies(). */ $comment_author_email = $commenter['comment_author_email']; /* * The URL of the current comment author escaped for use in attributes. */ $comment_author_url = esc_url( $commenter['comment_author_url'] ); $comment_args = array( 'orderby' => 'comment_date_gmt', 'order' => 'ASC', 'status' => 'approve', 'post_id' => $post->ID, 'no_found_rows' => false, ); if ( get_option( 'thread_comments' ) ) { $comment_args['hierarchical'] = 'threaded'; } else { $comment_args['hierarchical'] = false; } if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { $comment_args['include_unapproved'] = array( get_current_user_id() ); } else { $unapproved_email = wp_get_unapproved_comment_author_email(); if ( $unapproved_email ) { $comment_args['include_unapproved'] = array( $unapproved_email ); } } $per_page = 0; if ( get_option( 'page_comments' ) ) { $per_page = (int) get_query_var( 'comments_per_page' ); if ( 0 === $per_page ) { $per_page = (int) get_option( 'comments_per_page' ); } $comment_args['number'] = $per_page; $page = (int) get_query_var( 'cpage' ); if ( $page ) { $comment_args['offset'] = ( $page - 1 ) * $per_page; } elseif ( 'oldest' === get_option( 'default_comments_page' ) ) { $comment_args['offset'] = 0; } else { // If fetching the first page of 'newest', we need a top-level comment count. $top_level_query = new WP_Comment_Query(); $top_level_args = array( 'count' => true, 'orderby' => false, 'post_id' => $post->ID,Introduced in 1.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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