This is my solution and not the proposed solution suggested on the WordPress forums. It turns out to be fairly easy, but involves a few steps. 1) Go to wp-admin->Settings->Discussion and switch off threaded comments. This will disable threading, which we want, but will also remove the ability for us to “reply to” a particular … Read more
Option 1 As the article linked by @MikeMadern suggests: in your web host control panel, go to PHPMyAdmin select the table wp_comments select Export, configure the format further down in the same screen, select the Save as file and Go Option 2 Or, as the same article suggests, just use a plugin: Export comments Pulls … Read more
Either of these 3 will help you: //Before getting the comments, on the WP_Comment_Query object for each comment add_action(‘pre_get_comments’, ‘wpse56652_filt_comm’); //Applied on the comments SQL Query, you can modify the ‘Where’ part of the query add_filter(‘comments_clauses’, ‘wpse56652_filt_comm’); //After the comments are fetched, you can modify the comments array add_filter(‘the_comments’, ‘wpse56652_filt_comm’); function wpse56652_filt_comm($param) { //access the … Read more
To record the moderator that approves the comment: function wpse_comment_moderator_log( $comment ) { global $current_user; get_currentuserinfo(); update_comment_meta( $comment->comment_ID, ‘approved_by’, $current_user->user_login ); } add_action( ‘comment_unapproved_to_approved’, ‘wpse_comment_moderator_log’ ); To display it after the comment text: function wpse_display_moderator( $comment_text, $comment ) { $approved_by = get_comment_meta( $comment->comment_ID, ‘approved_by’, true ); if ( $approved_by ) { $comment_text .= ” – … Read more
I just added this feature to the beta branch of Simple Facebook Connect. It pulls comments back from auto-published stories and integrates them into the normal comments stream. Features: Integrated with Auto-Publish. When you post, and it’s auto-published to your Page or Profile, SFC notices and saves the resulting story IDs for later polling. Fast. … Read more
For my blog, I too run Akismet to catch any spam that is posted to my blog, but I also prevent spam from being posted in the first place using a few plugins: Cookies For Comments requires that people leaving comments have cookies and CSS stylesheets enabled. A stylesheet is added to your site that … Read more
From what I understand, you want to set pages and some custom post types to have commenting ‘off’ by default, while posts will still use the default option (i.e. commenting ‘on’). If this is the case, the following function will do it. function default_comments_off( $data ) { if( $data[‘post_type’] == ‘page’ && $data[‘post_status’] == ‘auto-draft’ … Read more
That’s pretty simple. You just have to take the textarea out of the default fields – filter ‘comment_form_defaults’ – and print it on the action ‘comment_form_top’: <?php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- /** * Plugin Name: T5 Comment Textarea On Top * Description: Makes the textarea the first field of the comment form. * Version: … Read more
Windows Live Writer Windows Live Writer (WLW) is hands down the best, if you are on Windows. One of the things I love about it is its plugin architecture and how many people have written useful plugins for WLW. (source: mikeschinkel.com) Qumana I searched far and wide for an equivalent on the Mac and didn’t … Read more
Here is a list of all of the above answers and a removal of the admin bar link. Just add it to your themes function file or make it a plugin. I will mark this as a community wiki as everyone’s answer is right just no one added it all together. <?php // Removes from … Read more