Comments on: How do you edit a comment in WordPress 2.5?

By: Elkerton

Elkerton — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:22:44 +0000

Bless you! I’d been through my site and the Codex for hours. Wish I’d found this blog at the beginning!

By: giddy tigress

giddy tigress — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:17:05 +0000

Ooh, thanks! I was going out of my mind everytime I tried to edit a comment and it brought me to my blog post instead! LOL

By: DHS

DHS — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:04:52 +0000

“You are not allowed to delete this post.” That’s what I get. Of course, the blog has over 25,000 !!!! comments, all spam of course. How do I delete them all in one fell swoop?

By: EL CHAVO!

EL CHAVO! — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:13:23 +0000

A hat tip to you Sir! I wasted lots of time trying to find the edit comment link, and only now found it after a google search. Gracias.

By: WordPress Wednesday News: WordCamps Everywhere, Webware 100 Again, Plugins to Fix WordPress 2.5, Change Admin Colors, and More : The Blog Herald

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:48:15 +0000

[...] to find out how to edit commnents in WordPress 2.5 which the changes in the Administration Panels. Mark Jaquith explains how by clicking the name of the commenter or the name of the site in the Comments Panel. Many are [...]

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:14:57 +0000

What are others using this for?

One use case is when someone leaves a good comment, but for their URL fills in something spammy or bacn-y. You don’t want to throw the ham out with the bacn, so you just blank out their URL.

By: Wie gut ist WordPress 2.5 wirklich? bei im web gefunden

Wie gut ist WordPress 2.5 wirklich? bei im web gefunden — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:27:37 +0000

[...] wie Mark Jaquith genötigt, in separaten Blogbeiträgen simple Arbeitsschritte wie etwa das Editieren von Kommentaren zu erklären. Um gleich nebenbei einzugestehen, dass ihnen einige Änderungen auch nicht [...]

By: John

John — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:21:04 +0000

@Jonathan
Editing the comments in this way could lead to some problems. Clicking where you didn’t mean to, editing and such, all without knowing. I agree, this makes flickr very easy, but there is something about not having to click anything that makes me a little weary.

Also, how often is everybody editing comments? I never do it myself, they either get deleted as spam or they get posted. If it is something that is defamatory, it isn’t edited, simply deleted. I don’t like changing what others have said. What are others using this for?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:37:22 +0000

Actually, what I’d prefer is if we made the comment itself clickable, rather than add an edit link. In Flickr, for example, if you want to edit the text under a photo, you click the paragraph and it turns into a text box containing the previous text. Then you simply edit it, and click out of the box to save your changes. Couldn’t we do something like this relatively easily? We could even have a Save button show up under the text field if you like that better than clicking outside the box.

(Echoed from WP Ideas forum)

By: Viper007Bond

Viper007Bond — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:33:44 +0000

Yeah, I agree exactly. The new post editing method makes tons of sense and doesn’t take much to get used to, but I still forget sometimes on how to edit comments.

By: Chrystalline » Blog Archive » WordPress Stuff

Chrystalline » Blog Archive » WordPress Stuff — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:59:35 +0000

[...] there was an edit link right there on the comment moderation page. Until I saw the subject line of this post (which is probably the only reason I’m keeping the news section on my dashboard now), I had [...]

By: Carly

Carly — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:10:41 +0000

I too had problems finding this… took me ages to figure it out. I thought that clicking the commenter’s name would take me to their site, for some reason.

By: that girl again

that girl again — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:07:49 +0000

This will solve the issue anyone is having where it isn’t intuitive to click the name of the comment

Um, not quite. WordPress.com users can’t install plugins.

By: Mark on WordPress: How do you edit a comment in WordPress 2.5? — 1FPS | Everything Matters

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:44:35 +0000

[...] Jaquith, one of the lead WordPress developers, had the same trouble many users did when trying to figure out how to edit comments in WordPress 2.5. Turns out that, like clicking a post’s name to edit, you click the [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:11:24 +0000

I will add a third endorsement to the Absolute Comments plugin. This will solve the issue anyone is having where it isn’t intuitive to click the name of the comment, and it also solves ever having to go to the actual post to respond to a comment. There is now an easy “reply” button that immediately brings up a window with an @ symbol to the last reply for your convenience. Already saved me a ton of time.