Don’t worry about the duplicated content issue. First of all, the canonical link fixes most browsers and search engine crawlers that will be reading your site (and it’s actually been there for a while). Second, the alleged “duplicate content penalty” that people have told you about (the things you’ve read that say it’s bad for … Read more
here’s a quick and dirty method… in functions php, we create a callback function for wp_list_comments() which will count our comments: $GLOBALS[‘parent_comments_count’] = 0; $GLOBALS[‘child_comments_count’] = 0; function count_comments( $comment, $args, $depth ) { $GLOBALS[‘comment’] = $comment; if($comment->comment_parent==0): $GLOBALS[‘parent_comments_count’]++; else: $GLOBALS[‘child_comments_count’]++; endif; } then, in our template where it calls wp_list_comments(), we add another with … Read more
Just use the $depth arg: if ( $depth ) { // it’s a child comment } else { // it’s a parent comment }
As usual with hooks this is issue of timing. your init function is hooked to admin load process, which works fine for most things; however in this specific case function is added to filter in constructor of WP_Comments_List_Table class, and object is created in edit-comments.php after admin loader had been processed. In my plugin for … Read more
You need wp_count_comments(). $comments_count = wp_count_comments(); $comments_count->moderated; // (int) comments in moderation
To my knowledge, there is no easy way to achieve what you want. What I think you would need to do is two parts: Detect page views by search engine spiders In your page templates, only include include the comments when the viewer is not a search engine spider. Should be straightforward, but not trivial. … Read more
You get this if $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’] of a ping/track back doesn’t match the IP address of the URL the ping back comes from allegedly. Let’s say someone claims to send a ping back from example.com but the request IP and the server IP for example.com are different – the ping back is marked as spam. The … Read more
Easiest way: ob_start(); comments_number(); $data = ob_get_clean(); $data will contain the text.
the link is called from within comment_form() (/wp-includes/comment-template.php line 1539) : ‘must_log_in’ => ‘<p class=”must-log-in”>’ . sprintf( __( ‘You must be <a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/71100/%s”>logged in</a> to post a comment.’ ), wp_login_url( apply_filters( ‘the_permalink’, get_permalink( $post_id ) ) ) ) . ‘</p>’, and uses wp_login_url() (/wp-includes/general-template.php lines 224+) which uses a filter on its return: return apply_filters(‘login_url’, … Read more
Check for the comment_parent: if( ‘0’ != $comment->comment_parent ){ // this is a reply }