Comment policy before comment area

Hello! I want to add some text before the comment area to point users to our comment policy. I got the following code from WPBeginner, but it is not working. (It is in a custom functions add-in for our site.)

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function forwardky_comment_text_before($arg) {
$arg[‘comment_notes_before’] = “<p>We are glad you have chosen to leave a comment. Please keep in mind that comments are moderated according to our comment policy.</p>”;
return $arg;
}

add_filter(‘comment_form_defaults’, ‘forwardky_comment_text_before’);
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I suspect it may be because Newspaper doesn’t use ‘comment_form_defaults’ for the comments section. I know I can do this with a plugin, but I’d rather avoid that if possible.

Thoughts?

I’m using Newspaper 10, and the standard post styles that were there in Newspaper 9. Not using a cloud template for posts.

The code came from WP Beginner: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-style-wordpress-comment-form/

I added it to our custom functions plugin, but it doesn’t seem to work. As I said, I suspect it is because Newspaper uses another term for the comments area, but I’m not sure.

I did some more digging, and realized there is a comments.php in the Standard Pack (which I am using). I tried editing that, and got close. Trying to track the build of the comments form through multiple PHP files is tiresome, though.

It appears that the code I showed you is ignored by the Standard Pack comments.php. I’ll keep working on it.