Short answer: you can’t. Longer answer: You can include comments.php as a template-part file inside another template, via: get_template_part( ‘comments.php’ ) …but that won’t actually make comments work, because the comments_template() template tag does far more than merely include the comments.php template-part file. In order to make comments actually work when using get_template_part() as opposed … Read more
wp_count_comments() returns the number of comments either for the whole blog or just for the current post. Example: if ( 10 < wp_count_comments( get_the_ID() )->approved ) echo ‘Wow, more than 10 comments!’;
You can filter query. See wpdb::query() in wp-includes/wp-db.php. You get the complete SQL string as parameter. Then look for queries to the comments table: add_filter( ‘query’, function( $query ) { global $wpdb; if ( FALSE === stripos( $query, “FROM $wpdb->comments” ) return $query; // Now change the SQL }); But you have to catch all … Read more
The ability to set comment status is tied to the “edit_comment” capability, which is a meta-capability in WordPress. It maps to the “edit_post” capability, which is another meta-capability that varies depending on whether a post is published or not. In the end, if a post is published, then edit_comment ends up mapping to “edit_published_posts” for … Read more
The wp_list_comments() function uses the HTML comment list class Walker_Comment by default: A single comment is then displayed with the Walker_Comment::comment() method (#source). If the comment format is HTML5 then the Walker_Comment::html5_comment() is used instead (#source). The pingbacks are rendered with the Walker_Comment::ping() method (#source).
The function is_wp_error checks if the given var is an instance of WP_Error class (source code as WP 4.2.2): function is_wp_error( $thing ) { return ( $thing instanceof WP_Error ); } As you can see, if the given variable is a instance of WP_Error class, the function returns true, even if the object is empty. … Read more
In order to add a new comment you really only need a couple of fields and a POST method. In a typical comment form, requests are submitted to http://www.example.com/wp-comments-post.php which parses the $_POST data and sends it off to wp_handle_comment_submission. A POST method varies from a GET request in that params are usually sent in … Read more
You could use get_comments(), this way you don’t have to loop through posts. <?php $args = array( ‘post_author’ => ” // fill in post author ID ); $author_comments = get_comments($args); echo count($author_comments); ?>
The end-callback of wp_list_comments() One way is to use the end-callback argument in: wp_list_comments( [ ‘end-callback’ => ‘wpse_comments_ads_injection’, … other arguments … ], $comments ); in addtion to your other wp_list_comments arguments, by defining: function wpse_comments_ads_injection( $comment, $args, $depth ) { static $instance = 0; $tag = ( ‘div’ == $args[‘style’] ) ? ‘div’ : … Read more
Here you go, paste this code in your themes functions.php file: function loggedin_approved_comment($approved) { // No need to do the check if the comment is already approved anyway. if (!$approved) { if (is_user_logged_in()) { // Note: 1/0, not true/false $approved = 1; } } return $approved; } // Action allows the comment automatic approval to … Read more