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Disqus moderation page not working in WordPress admin section

I had a response from Disqus Support regarding this issue: Hi Scott, To clarify, the Disqus moderation panel in WordPress is not intended to be used with https. If you would like to use the moderation panel in https you’ll need to go to the Disqus moderation panel directly at: https://scotthelme.disqus.com/admin/moderate/#/approved If you have any … Read more

Comment form – different title if no comment yet

Use get_comments_number() to get … well … the number of comments. In your theme’s comments.php you can use its return value to do something: $num = (int) get_comments_number(); if ( 0 === $num ) echo ‘Be the first! But please don’t write just “First!”’; elseif ( 100 < $num ) echo ‘Yeah, add some noise. … Read more

How to maintain changes to comment-template.php

There’s a filter for that: get_comments_link. Refer to source: return apply_filters( ‘get_comments_link’, $comments_link, $post_id ); In an appropriate place (such as a site functionality Plugin), just add a filter via callback: function wpse123906_filter_comments_link( $comments_link, $post_id ) { // Return your custom link return get_permalink( $post_id ) . ‘#disqus_thread’; } add_filter( ‘get_comments_link’, ‘wpse123906_filter_comments_link’, 10, 2 );

How to ‘If Author’ Comments Check

If you use the comment_class function to add classes to each comment, comments by the post’s author can be styled via the bypostauthor class. You can alternately match the comment ID against the post ID: global $post; if( $comment->user_id === $post->post_author ) { // is author comment }

Auto disable comments with custom field

Editing your code to use a custom field is fairly trivial… function close_comments( $posts ) { if ( !is_single() ) { return $posts; } $cmeta = get_post_meta($posts[0]->ID,’your_field_name’,true); if ( $posts[0]->post_date_gmt < $cmeta ) { $posts[0]->comment_status=”closed”; $posts[0]->ping_status=”closed”; } return $posts; } add_filter( ‘the_posts’, ‘close_comments’ ); I am not sure that that approach is the right one … Read more

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