So, it doesn’t appear you can do much “properly” to solve this issue, however, you can take some advice from this answer and apply it to your problem:
<?php
add_filter( 'get_comment_author_IP', function( $comment_author_IP, $comment_ID, $comment )
{
global $pagenow;
if( is_admin() && 'post.php' === $pagenow && isset( $_GET['post'] ) ) {
$comment_date = do_something_to_get_comment_date($comment_ID);
$comment_author_IP .= ' <span>Posted On:</span> ' . $comment_date;
}
return $comment_author_IP;
}, 10, 3 );
This allows you to modify the content returned with the comment’s IP address. You should definitely make sure your if
check only modifies the data returned in the one specific case that you need it, so you may need to play around with how to write that conditional to avoid your extra data leaking into places it shouldn’t be.
Update with functional code
The previous answer was mostly a guess at what you’d need to do, but I did some testing on my own WP install. An issue with overriding comment IP is that it’s used to form a link to search for comments from that IP address. Instead, we’ll use comment_author
since it’s not a functional string in the UI.
Also, the gate I added was wrong since comments come in over AJAX when editing a post, so I’ve updated the checks as well:
add_filter( 'get_comment_author', function( $comment_author, $comment_ID, $comment )
{
global $pagenow;
if ( ! is_admin() ) {
return $comment_author;
}
if ( ! isset( $_POST['action'] ) || 'get-comments' !== filter_var( $_POST['action'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING ) ) {
return $comment_author;
}
$comment_author .= ' | ' . get_comment_date( '', $comment_ID );
return $comment_author;
}, 10, 3 );