In Drupal 7, moving the comment form above the comments

Question

Before anyone suggest the Comment Form Above Comments, I have already tried that it did not work.

Honestly there seems to be amazingly little documentation on this issue, given that comment form above the comments is so standard on many sites now a days I would figure there would be a simple button to click to make this happen.

This leads me to believe that either there is a simple solution that I am completely missing or there is no way to do this and I am doomed. Me I am hoping for the first one.

I have a blog site... I read about altering the core code of the comments module, but I have also heard that it is bad practice to alter the core code. So if there is another solution out there available to drupal 7 I would appreciate it.

Answer 1

I think you should copy modules/comment/comment-wrapper.tpl.php to your theme and change it there. The file is pretty much self explanatory. Hope it's helpful.

Answer 2

I am not sure what you mean by

Before anyone suggest the Comment Form Above Comments, I have already tried that it did not work.

But the following works for me.

In node.tpl.php I printed the form in the following order

  <?php print render($content['comments']['comment_form']); ?>

  <?php print render($content['comments']); ?>

The form and the comments are contained with in the variable $content['comments'] so when you render this variable it does so with both the comments as well as the comment form. The comment form is found with in the variable called $content['comments']['comment_form'] so if you render this one first it would be removed from the array and wont be rendered in the subsequent call to the render function.

Please see it in action in below image