How to fix comments that weren’t meant to be replies to existing comments?

  • philraymond

    (@philraymond)


    4 years, 6 months ago

    People often click ‘Reply’ in the comments section (i.e. replying to someone else’s comment) even when they’re clearly trying to leave a general comment instead.

    Is there any way I can switch those comments to regular comments when I approve them?

    (Yes, sometimes they’re replying on purpose but it’s the ones that are an obvious mistake that I’d like to fix, so as to avoid having an email go out to the original commenter.)

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • daymobrew

    (@daymobrew)

    4 years, 6 months ago

    These comments have the ‘comment_parent’ column in the database set to a comment ID. It needs to be set to zero.

    I don’t know of a way to change this in the admin. I think that you will have to change it via phpMyAdmin:
    – In the Dashboard edit the comment to find the comment ID (it will be in the url e.g. http://localhost/wp-admin/comment.php?action=editcomment&c=3). Don’t change anything.
    – In phpMyAdmin, go to the wp_comments table and search for comment_ID = 3.
    – Edit this database entry to change comment_parent from a number to 0.

    Maybe this is an idea for a small plugin 🙂

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