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I am developing a theme and, after calling comments_template(), noticed that "Theme without comments.php is deprecated since version 3.0".

I created a comments.php in the root of my theme and copied the default wp-includes/theme-compat/comments.php inside, which is perfectly fine for me. This core file will be removed in future versions of wordpress.

I am not sure if this is a good practice for theme development, though, as it is a complex bunch of code and it does not belong to the website development core features. I prefer wordpress to provide a default comments template.

I could deliver the theme without the ability to enable comments, but that is even worse.

I can be called lazy, but apart from that, shouldn't there be a standard/default comments template?

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You shouldn't copy that file, precisely because it is too bulky. About half of it is implementation of submission form, which was entirely replaced with comment_form() function around that time.

So the answer why was it deprecated is roughly:

  1. Newer code is more compact
  2. Markup belongs in theme

For better and more relevant comments.php example look at core themes, such as twentyfifteen/comments.php.

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  • OK, so i will take comments.php of newest core themes as standard/base. Thank you
    – Marc
    Jan 30, 2015 at 8:56
  • I just wanted to throw a suggestion in to use underscores as an excellent starter theme.
    – Jodi Warren
    Feb 3, 2015 at 12:41
  • I switched to that style of comments.php but how do I login, that option seems gone.
    – Muskie
    Jan 27, 2019 at 7:33

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