Comment Form – Error: You must agree to our privacy policy…….Return Link?

Hey Richard,

This is the default wordpress comment form validation function. You could install a plugin like: https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ajaxify-comments/ to validate the comments on the same page.

If you just want to edit the error message you can try to add this code to the child theme functions.php file:

add_filter('avf_privacy_comment_checkbox_error_message', 'avia_privacy_comment_checkbox_error_message', 10, 1);
function avia_privacy_comment_checkbox_error_message($message)
{
  $url = htmlspecialchars($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
  return "Error: You must agree to our privacy policy…. <a href='$url'>Back to previous page.</a>";
}

However I’m no sure if this code will work with the current theme version or if you must wait for the next theme update (because the filter “avf_privacy_comment_checkbox_error_message” might be missing in the current version).

Best regards,
Dude

Hi,
I didn’t test this code but you can try to use the javascript go back method like:

add_filter('avf_privacy_comment_checkbox_error_message', 'avia_privacy_comment_checkbox_error_message', 10, 1);
function avia_privacy_comment_checkbox_error_message($message)
{
  return "Error: You must agree to our privacy policy…. <a href='#' onclick='window.history.back()'>Back to previous page.</a>";
}

Best regards,
Dude