Have a look at the Codex about “Using Gravatars”. There you´ll find a part about “Checking for the Existence of a Gravatar” which works like this: The trick to do this is to specify “404” as the default. In this case, the gravatar service will return a 404 error if no gravatar exists, instead of … Read more
) first thanks a lot to @swisspidy and the suggestion to modify $_POST on the init hook. but after a bit of more thinking and looking at the code i took a different approach. instead of fixing things afterwards, after the form submit, i decided to fix things via jQuery during the form submit and … Read more
Here are few ideas: It’s possible to inject custom HTML or data attributes via the comment_reply_link filter, but I think it would be better to keep it unobtrusive. One could try to get the comment parent value from the reply comment form: <input type=”hidden” name=”comment_parent” id=’comment_parent’ value=”0″ /> after it has been updated with the … Read more
The code below adds the counts for user roles. It’s commented pretty well to explain what’s happening. It should give you a good starting point for further customization (maybe you want to hide 0 counts, change the HTML output, etc.). function comments_shortcode($atts) { $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); extract( shortcode_atts( array( ‘id’ => ” ), $atts ) … Read more
Removing Custom Post Types’ comments from Recent Comments Widget The arguments for the recent comments widget can be customized using the widget_comments_args filter. To customize the post types types whose comments will be included, we can customize the $post_type variable: $post_type Post type or array of post types to retrieve affiliated comments for. Pass ‘any’ … Read more
The $depth parameter in the walker class is used for outputting and padding the output. You can use it to format your HTML structure. For example: <div class=”comment-meta post-meta cmnt-padding-<?php echo $depth ;?>” role=”complementary”> which will output an extra class for your comment wrapper, that you can use to style your comments.
It’s currently not that easy to create new comment statuses in WordPress. Comments in WordPress have a field comment_approved which can have a value of 1, 0, spam or trash. In your case I’d probably leverage the existing trash functionality and store the rejection reason as comment meta. That’s similar to how anti-spam plugins like … Read more
You should be able to do a meta_query in a WP_Comment_Query(): $args = array( ‘post_id’ => ‘post-id-here’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘fish’, ‘value’ => ‘shark’, ‘compare’ => ‘LIKE’ ) ) ); // Query the comments $comment_query = new WP_Comment_Query( $args ); // Count the number of comments $count = count ( $comment_query ); … Read more
WordPress already have such function in its core. It’s called ‘human_time_diff’ and it’s used in WP admin section. Usage is pretty simple: echo human_time_diff( $from, $to ); where $from is Unix timestamp from which the difference begins and $to is Unix timestamp to end the time difference (or time() by default). So you’ll have to … Read more
Maybe I don’t understand your question correctly, but… I think there’s an option that does exactly what you need… If you log in as Administrator and go to Settings->Discussion you should see this option “Users must be registered and logged in to comment”.