To prevent the comment deletion hook into before_delete_post, and filter the query for associated comments so the deletion routine cannot find and delete those. PHP 5.3 required: add_action( ‘before_delete_post’, function( $post_id ) { add_filter( ‘query’, function( $query ) use ( $post_id ) { $find = ‘WHERE comment_parent=”; FALSE !== strpos( $query, $find . $post_id ) … Read more
Disclaimer: I wrote parts of the Akismet WordPress plugin, though not the parts in question here. Is Akismet failing to connect to the Akismet service, notifying me, and retrying later? Yes, this is exactly what happens. If Akismet doesn’t get a valid response from the servers, it reschedules the check for 20 minutes in the … Read more
There seems to be a problem with the custom post type feed support when has_archive is false. Check for example these tickets: #16415 Don’t require CPTs to have archives in order to have feeds #24867 Feeds for custom posts type can not be set independently of has_archive and supports => comments So regarding the native … Read more
Here are a few functions that make use of WP_Comment_Query to pull the user’s Comments, then loop through to find any replies, and trash them all. $current_user = wp_get_current_user(); $deleteReplies = true; $force_delete = false; deleteUserComments ( $current_user->ID, $deleteReplies, $force_delete ); If you want to test this without permanently trashing the items, you can reset … Read more
I wonder if you mean this kind of approach: add_filter( ‘init’, function() { $u = wp_get_current_user(); if( $u->exists() && in_array( ‘banned’, $u->roles, true ) ) add_filter( ‘comments_open’, ‘__return_false’ ); } ); where we check if the current user has the custom banned role. If that’s the case then we force all comments to be closed … Read more
Try to check on DB level. This SQL should give a list of all spam comments (which I assume skräpposter means): SELECT * FROM `wp_comments` WHERE `comment_approved` = ‘spam’; If the SQL gives 0 lines, the issue is with WordPress counting those comments, but in fact there are none. If the SQL gives a list, … Read more
After briefly testing, the code snippet from OP seems to work: printf( ‘<a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/269898/%s”>%s</a>’, wp_nonce_url( admin_url( “comment.php?c=$comment_id&action=deletecomment” ), ‘delete-comment_’ . $comment_id ), esc_html__( ‘Delete comment’, ‘text-domain’ ) ); But it looks like we have to make sure that the author is only deleting comments on hir own post, otherwise it will look for the edit_others_posts … Read more
Hi @hannit cohen: This slideshow from Beau Lebens should be able to show you how: Hooking into Comments And this blog post from Otto should be able to show you more: WordPress 3.0 Theme Tip: The Comment Form
The downside of using a forum system for comments, is that: the user probably has to register with the site to post a comment the user may not have single sign on ability through Vanilla you won’t be storing your comments in a system that can export them and import them into another commenting engine, … Read more
1) add “comments” to the supports array when registering the post type. 2) add the comments_template() function inside the loop of the single.php template and you are good to go.