There is definitely a performance advantage in keeping your comment spam to a minimum. If you have a lot of comments, the query time can get pretty out of control. To make it easier, you should install Akismet if you haven’t already. Akismet will automatically detect spam comments and move them to WordPress spam section. … Read more
The comment_notification_text filter is in wp-includes/pluggable.php in the wp_notify_postauthor function. You can copy and paste the $notify_message stuff and edit out what you don’t want. function wpd_comment_notification_text( $notify_message, $comment_id ){ // get the current comment and post data $comment = get_comment( $comment_id ); $post = get_post( $comment->comment_post_ID ); // don’t modify trackbacks or pingbacks if( … Read more
It’s not a bug (gasp!) really just not provided for. You have to add a filter to do this, eg add_filter( ‘comments_clauses’, function ( $pieces, $query ) { if ( empty( $query->query_vars[‘wpse_no_password’] ) ) return $pieces; global $wpdb; $pieces[ ‘where’ ] .= $wpdb->prepare( ‘ AND ‘ . $wpdb->posts . ‘.post_password = %s’, ” ); return … Read more
Ok I feel stupid now. The problem was that for whatever reason some of the posts had comments disabled. I did not know that the only place where they could be toggled was under “Quick Edit”. Problem solved…
What you need is: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/human_time_diff So this should do exactly what you need: <?php printf( _x( ‘%s ago’, ‘%s = human-readable time difference’, ‘your-text-domain’ ), human_time_diff( get_comment_time( ‘U’ ), current_time( ‘timestamp’ ) ) ); ?>
In Settings > Discussion Uncheck An administrator must always approve the comment Check Comment author must have a previously approved comment This way comments from people (identified by combination of name, email and site) who have previously approved comments will not require moderation. Rest of comments will.
functions.php: function remove_nofollow($link, $args, $comment, $post){ return str_replace(“rel=”nofollow””, “”, $link); } add_filter(‘comment_reply_link’, ‘remove_nofollow’, 420, 4);
Try the following custom Comment Walker class. The walker keep tracks for print index in a global variable named $current_comment_print_index; which is intialized in the paged_walk function. You can print global variable $current_comment_print_index to show the current printed comment number. <?php /* Plugin Name: Comment Count Walker for WPSE 20527 Author: Hameedullah Khan Author URI: … Read more
On your posts screen, you should be able to filter by category and then select all and bulk edit to turn off comments. Edit: Bulk actions only apply per page (e.g. 20 posts or however many you have showing), so you’ll either have to do it for each page of results or go up to … Read more
This answer can change depending on the theme or plugins you have installed, but the code can usually be found in similar places of the theme editor. For example, if you are using the default Twenty Eleven theme in WordPress 3.2.1, you can verify the location of the comments call by checking here: Login to … Read more