Make wordpress comments work with include templatepath

Question

How can I make the wordpress comments work with:

include(TEMPLATEPATH."/comments.php");

instead of:

comments_template( '', true );

Ay ideas? Ty

Answer 1

Short answer: you can't.

Longer answer:

You can include comments.php as a template-part file inside another template, via:

get_template_part( 'comments.php' )

...but that won't actually make comments work, because the comments_template() template tag does far more than merely include the comments.php template-part file. In order to make comments actually work when using get_template_part() as opposed to comments_template(), you'd need to duplicate all of the functions performed by comments_template(). And if you need to duplicate all of that code in order to make comments work, you might as well just use the function itself.

Answer 2

That wont work because we cannot include the comments.php file as a template file. Our comments.php file doesn't contain the necessary codes to do SQL operations on database and fetch the comments to display.

So instead including that file as a template file we should call the function comments_template() to show the comments.

Wordpress uses comments_template() function to get the file and display the comments, if we don't provide file variable wordpress uses default comments.php to process the result.

Note -

If you're curious about how to load a different comment template then here's the code

<?php comments_template( '/comments2.php' ); ?> 

Reference - Comments_template