Title: Reorder Comment Thread
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Reorder Comment Thread

 *  [Peter Ould](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pould/)
 * (@pould)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reorder-comment-thread/)
 * Hi folks,
 * I’d like to be able to reorder the comments in a thread. For example, sometimes
   a commenter doesn’t hit the “reply” button on a particular comment and instead
   posts a comment as a new comment further down the page. I’d like to be able to
   position that new comment in a current thread in reply to a particular comment.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [idearius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idearius/)
 * (@idearius)
 * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reorder-comment-thread/#post-1527833)
 * Even if it’s only to help make a case for a plugin that does this, I’ll take 
   this chance to say I’d surely welcome this kind of functionality.
 * I ended up modifying the database with PhpMyAdmin to get the changes done… the
   hard way: you have to find and assign the “comment_ID” of the parent comment 
   to the child comment, in the “comment_parent” field.
 * By the way, drag and drop for this would be sweet 😉
 * Cheers.

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 * Last reply from: [idearius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idearius/)
 * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reorder-comment-thread/#post-1527833)
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