Move WordPress Comments
This plugin adds a small form to every comment on your blog. The form is only added for admins and allows you to move comments to a different page and to fix comment threading.
This plugin is not designed for mass-moving of comments, rather for moving single comments from time to time. There are other plugins better suited for moving many comments at once.
The forms will be visible on every comment on your post/page, but not in the admin section. I found this more convenient than the existing solutions. There’s also a widget included that allows you to turn the forms on and off in case you don’t need them all the time.
Download it from it’s WordPress.org page.
I am Nicolas Kuttler, a web developer, system administrator and IT consultant from France, currently living in Germany.
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Thanks for the useful move comment plugin!
I’m glad you like it!
I installed this plugin and activated it but I don’t see the form on my comments. Please advise.
That’s odd. Which WordPress version do you use and where’s your blog? You are logged in as admin and are looking at a post page, not the comment section in the admin backend? What happens when you try a different theme?
I use WP 2.8.4. Yup, login as admin and looking at a post page not the admin section. I tested it on another blog using the default WP theme but it wasn’t working either. Can I confirm that I’ll only need to install and activate right?
Thanks!
I think I found the problem. If you use automatic plugin upgrades simply upgrading to 0.1.1 should fix the issue. If not, add the widget that comes with my plugin to your sidebar (it will only be visible to you) and enable the forms there. I’ll have to add a settings page to the plugin too.
This was a clear bug, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
I upgraded and yes the latest version has fixed the problem. It’s working, I tested it by moving a children comment to a parent comment.
Thank you!
Is it possible to have an admin option to turn the form on or off? I don’t use the widgets feature in WP so can you put the option to turn the form on and off somewhere in the admin as well?
Thanks!
Good idea. On my TODO.
How about Mu support? I run all my wordpress clients on a mu install, and I’d really like to add this plugin. This is a necessary piece of any comment software.. two thumbs up!
Hi Erik, thanks! Mu support will be added as soon as I launch my first Mu site (might take a few weeks). Btw, did you try the plugin on Mu?
Btw, it looks like I wont switch to μ soon.
Just to write that fixing comments threading works in 2.9 and probably moving of comments works too, so you should update working version in readme.txt.
Some suggestions:
you should internationalize plugin so that we can translate it to our languages
I think that it will be better that descriptions of fields (“Post” and “Parent. This is #”) are on left side of fields so that we avoid confusion
you should add anchor at the end of URLs when form is submitted so that user comes back to comment he last edited and not to scroll all the way down (anchor is in form #comment-ID)
Hi Milan, great suggestions, thanks for those. I haven’t worked on this plugin for a while, but I think I can implement this stuff soon. I18N is already mostly done which would be the biggest part.
Great! Just one more thing I forgot in first comment: you should install Subscribe to Comments here for easier following of replies on comments.
And btw, you don’t have style for unordered list in your theme
Yeah, I have been looking into subscribe to comments plugins but didn’t like what I found so far. Just installed a different one.
I’m not aware that I need any styles for <ul>s
There is a new release with all your suggestions included. The anchor is indeed very useful, although it was a little tricky to figure out how to make it work
Hi Nicolas,
thanks a lot for this plugin! Really helps a lot! I really saves time compared to having to open the DB admin tool. And great that it also corrects the comments counts for the posts!
Another idea: Maybe the functionality could also be added to the backend, especially the “Quick Edit” of Comments.
Best wishes,
Tobias
Hello Tobias, I think this is a good idea but I doubt I will add it. It’s probably too much work to duplicate what can already be done. Oh well, maybe somewhen when I have far too much free time on my hands
Hi Nicolas,
yes, that’s a good reason
The backend manipulation is probably much harder.
And I just found out about the widget to turn the feature on/off as needed. That’s really great!
I have some minor corrections/optimizations for your code though that I will email you to the address from the license file.
Best wishes,
Tobias
I installed it but I don`t know how to move the comment to where I want it to go?
Hi Susan, did you read the faq? Please let me know if the instructions need to be changed.
Susan’s question is not answered in the faq, at least, it did not help me when I tried to find out what to do. Here are the steps
1) Log on as administrator (obviously)
2) Identify and bring up the comments you want to move either on the actual page or under Comments
3) Change the Post Id (the first field) to the post number of the new post and click Move (or move the post to a new parent by changing the Parent number) in the same manner.
Now for me the challange was to find out what the new Post Id was. It is easy if there are already posts on that page, but
if not then you have to find the Id some other way. There are several ways to do this, one of them is bring up the page or post in edit mode and check out the URL. It is the last number.
Hope this makes sense.
Nicolas, feel free to add my comment to your FAQ. Thanks for this great and well maintained plug in. The only one that I found that works with WP 2.9.2
Cheers
Meini
Nicolas, I tried to move both, a comment and a reply to it using the Edit Comments screen. I could move the parent ok, but the reply would not budge. The Post field would not take the new number and kept reverting to the original one. I succeeded using the front end though.
Thanks you again for this wonderfull tool!
Hi Meini, thanks for your comment. I will update the FAQ.
You’re right about moving parent comments to a different post, that won’t move the children. I should probably add some test or move the children as well. Never though about this before.
Thank you so much for this plugin Nicolas, it is pretty easy to use and the form method works in a whizz. Great tool. I’ll make a post in it in the WordPress section of my site. Cheers.
Mr. Kuttler, im very interesting about your comments plugin. can i download it? thanks.
Hello Ricky, there is a download link on this page, and I have just added a big download icon
Thanks for the plugin! There’s one minor issue, though: the widget in lines 182-185 isn’t valid XHTML, so it breaks validation for the page.
Thanks for the report! I’ve already fixed it but am not sure when to release as I may switch to buttons for changing the setting. Anyway, it’s only visible for admins so no big deal I guess.
Thanks for the plugin!
Hey thanks Nicolas for the tuto, i’m new in the wordpress world and have to deal with this for some customers so thanks again and have a great week end
Hm, not sure which tuto you’re referring to? Maybe I should move the comment
Oben steht .de also auf deutsch.
) kannst du eine Möglichkeit schaffen, die Formularfelder/-texte selbst anzuordnen? Ich verwende momentan
Danke für das tolle Plugin. Gerade bei verschachtelten Kommentaren ist es eine Wohltat diese schnell umsortieren zu können.
Aber (natürlich
“KommentarID ‘zu Post’ [PostID] ‘Kommentar’ [KommentarID] ['verschieben']“. Nur muss ich dazu halt immer den Code ändern. Man ist ja bequem.
Hmmm, das werde ich mir mal anschauen. Anordnen werde ich wohl nicht einbauen, aber über lokalisiertung sollte sich die Reihenfolge ändern lassen. Dann könntest du einfach eine neue ‘Übersetzung’ schicken die alles so ordnet wie du möchtest.
Deutsch gibt’s übrigens auf http://www.nicolaskuttler.de aber ich sehe grad dass ich die Seite für dieses plugin gar nicht übersetzt habe.