Modify Comment Parent

Sometimes when replying to a comment, I fail to reply and instead create a new
comment. This prevents the comment thread from displaying properly. In the
past, I’ve fixed this directly in the database. This plugin, allows me to fix
it from the backend comment edit screen.

There are other plugins with similar functionality, however they either worked differently than I prefer or included additional functionality. One of these other plugins may meet your needs better.

• Change Comment Parent allows you to modify the parent comment by clicking on the comments on the front-end.
• Yoast Comment Hacks includes many different pieces of comment related functionality, this is one of them.

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Pixabay

Author

Built by Sal Ferrarello / @salcode

1. Install plugin from WordPress plugin repository https://wordpress.org/plugins/
2. Activate Stop Emails through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Manual Installation

1. Upload the entire stop-emails directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate Stop Emails through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

mu-plugin Installation

1. If the directory wp-content/mu-plugins/ does not exist, create it.
2. Upload the single file modify-comment-parent.php to the wp-content/mu-plugins/ directory

1. 

   The backend comment edit page.

2. 

   The new Comment Parent field.

1.0.3

• Remove extraneous return $post_id; to prevent PHP Warning Undefined variable $post_id (#6)

1.0.2

• Replace FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING with FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW (#2)

1.0.1

• Increase text input box width. Previously, it was too narrow for large numbers.

1.0.0

• Initial release.