Title: comment_footer_die
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: February 24, 2026

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# comment_footer_die( string $msg )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/comment_footer_die/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/comment_footer_die/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/comment_footer_die/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Displays error message at bottom of comments.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/comment_footer_die/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$msg`stringrequired

Error Message. Assumed to contain HTML and be sanitized.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/comment_footer_die/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    function comment_footer_die( $msg ) {
    	echo "<div class='wrap'><p>$msg</p></div>";
    	require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/admin-footer.php';
    	die;
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/comment.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/comment.php#L218)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-admin/includes/comment.php#L218-L222)

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/comment_footer_die/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [2.5.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.5.0/) | Introduced. |

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