Comments on: How To Enable Threaded Comments In WordPress

By: Kim Castleberry

Kim Castleberry — Sun, 06 May 2012 04:27:12 +0000

Hey Eranda, thanks for the kind reply. The type of customization you see here is actually part of my theme. In my case its because I custom added it. However, many themes have their own styling for author comments as well. I’m not sure if there is a plugin that would accomplish this or not. I prefer to keep as many plugins converted into code (so I need fewer plugins with their issues) whenever possible.
Kim

By: Eranda

Eranda — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:08:15 +0000

I was surprised to see my theme did not have this enabled out of the box. I enabled threaded comments from the discussion panel and nothing happened. I used the plugin recommended by you and now threaded comments work.

May I know how to have a separate effect for authors comments just like you have in your blog?
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By: vaishali

vaishali — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:14:32 +0000

Great in depth info Kim! You do a great job explaining the detail to get people going because everyone should have threaded comments on their blog. It promotes on site discussion and can drastically increase SEO results.
If anyone is using an Empowered Blog, threaded comments are already built in and there is no need to download the plugin.

By: Nurul Imam

Nurul Imam — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:42:48 +0000

Thread Comment My Themes Not Wor on Default WordPress Threading.
Install WordPress Comment Threading ?

By: Mandy Swift

Mandy Swift — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:53:22 +0000

Hi Kim, you know it doesn’t matter how often I come back to your blog, there is always some piece of random information I didn’t know about or was wondering the answer to. It always ough Ibugged me that replies on a blog appeared totally ‘randomly’ or out of sync. Such an easy solution to the problem, and although I’ve been ‘good friends’ with my blog for a while now, you took me to a place in my back office where I’d never bothered to go before and which meant I could change a couple of other settings that were bugging me- so thx!!

By: Barbara Harnsberger

Barbara Harnsberger — Sun, 08 May 2011 17:48:46 +0000

Thanks Kim for another wonderful post. I love all of the information I learn from you. You always make it look so easy (which some of us make it so hard) and I thank you for that. I look forward to more.

To Much More Success,
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By: CJ Priestley

CJ Priestley — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:15:38 +0000

Hey Kim

I am a bit confused, is the reason behind threaded comments just to differentiate the blog owners comments and your visitors comments to show there is interaction? It seems just a bit easier to read as well.

I have seen on some blogs that the blog owners comment box in the threaded comments is highlighted with a color, how can some achieve this easily especially if they don’t do any coding.

Now Clifton mentioned that it can drastically increase SEO, how and why is that? Is it just when Google sees activity on the site its more likely to have its spiders crawl it? Or something completely different?

By: Howie Perks

Howie Perks — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:55:01 +0000

Hey Kim,

Wow!! Such a simple fix and all this time I had no idea that is was that easy.

Thanks for the email about your post. I fixed it on my blog and now replying is so much easier and looks better as well!

In Success,
Howie Perks
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By: Suresh Khanal@SEO MMO Tips

Suresh Khanal@SEO MMO Tips — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 01:09:41 +0000

Yes, it must be so, but they could put a button that toggle the view in threaded or recent mode. It would be lot useful. I’m looking for and will inform if ever I find anything useful.
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By: Kimberly Castleberry

Kimberly Castleberry — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:04:15 +0000

Suresh, as far as I know that’s the best you’re going to get. I’ve tried several approaches to make the comment area in the dashboard thread but it was not designed to do so (or to be easily modified by plugins). If you figure out how to get it to thread I hope you’ll let me know. Yet at the same time its essential to be able to see easily what comments came in today so they dont get lost if they are on older posts.
Kimberly

By: Suresh Khanal@SEO MMO Tips

Suresh Khanal@SEO MMO Tips — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:24:27 +0000

I have something different problem Kim, my comments are threaded by default because the theme were developed the way but the comments in dashboard are recent-first type – not threaded.

Thanks for reminding to check the discussion settings. In beginning days there’s a lot more work and I often depend of default settings and later on when everything starts smooth, I forget those settings. I checked the settings and tweaked the ones I needed. Thanks.
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By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:12:37 +0000

Am trying it to use Threaded Comments at my site nomad4ever.com. Problem am facing with WP built-in or the above mentioned Plugin is, that the ‘Reply’ link appears, but nothing happens, once you click on it.

Tried all possible combinations of enable/disable in plugin management, but new comments won’t appear where they should. Firefox/Chrome simply don’t output any error message, when clicking on ‘reply’, while IE says ‘Error on page’ in the status bar and does nothing.

What’s wrong with my setup? Can anyone please help? Thanks a million!

By: Amanda L Grossman

Amanda L Grossman — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:31:22 +0000

Great information–thank you for the help!
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By: Kimberly Castleberry

Kimberly Castleberry — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:34:07 +0000

Hey hun! Thanks for stopping by Mayya.

The comment reply notification is only one piece of what is built into wp-thread-comment. I think you may be looking at it the other way around. CRN is part of Thread-Comment, but Thread-Comment is not part of CRN.

If your theme already supports the default comment threading check box – and you use this plugin you may have conflicts because those two parts do the same thing. That would be similar to using wp-comment-thread with the CRN plugin too – because they do the same thing, they will confuse each other.

If your theme supports the default wordpress threading, you want to use the CRN plugin. However you may need to read the comments on that plugins post because there is a bit of a bug with it. It does not work from the dashboard only from the front of the blog. I’m taking donations to get someone to fix it soon!
Kimberly

By: Mayya

Mayya — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:04:42 +0000

Hi Kimberely
I found your blog when i was looking for the comment reply notification plug in and from that post was lead here.
Now my WP is currently 3.0.1 and when i uploaded the comment reply notification plug in it didnt work and I have no idea why.
I use the threaded comment which is supported by WP and i wanted to disable it and simply upload this plug in which will also supports the comment reply notification but you dont advise it …so what should i do?

By: Beverly Monical

Beverly Monical — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:46:31 +0000

Thanks again Kimberly. You have helped me yet again.You have so much knowledge about all this technical stuff and I am so happy we are friends.
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By: Kimberly Castleberry

Kimberly Castleberry — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:17:34 +0000

The plugin “Subscribe to comments” is actually well behaved and CAN-SPAM compliant by itself. However, there are a lot of related plugins that are not.

Here is a link to a post I did on “Comment Reply Notification” that has a pretty extensive section on CAN-SPAM compliance for wordpress plugins.
http://just-ask-kim.com/wordpress-plugin-review-comment-reply-notification/

Glad you got it working Mitch and thanks for stopping by!
Kimberly

By: Mitchell Allen

Mitchell Allen — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:55:08 +0000

Hi Kimberly!

I have one of those ancient themes that doesn’t support threading. When I asked @DonnaFontenot about suitable plugins, show pointed me to your tutorial.

Thanks for the detailed help! The plugin works nicely.
You mentioned that we had to be careful about our choices for notifying commentators. Do you have a tutorial for “Subscribe to Comments?”

Cheers,

Mitch
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By: Kimberly Castleberry

Kimberly Castleberry — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:07:28 +0000

Glad you got it working on your blog! It would make sense if new installations would have that enabled by default but they cant do that because if they’d upgrade an old blog that was using a plugin or custom-coded solution they could break things for some people. Hopefully they work on this a little further to point out to people how easy it is to enable it. It’s not that we don’t want it – its just kinda a hidden gem!

By: Steve Shoemaker

Steve Shoemaker — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:48:44 +0000

Kim awesome! I have been looking how to take care of this problem. This is a great post you don’t have one solution but 2 awesome thank you.

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Wordpress Plugin Review: Comment Reply Notification — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:31:02 +0000

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By: Linda G. Cox

Linda G. Cox — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:59:44 +0000

Thanks Kimberly!
This was the FIRST thing you taught me back-in-the-day! What was that 6 months ago? It’s fun learning from you! Thank you for all your teaching!
~Linda
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By: Toni King

Toni King — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:54:28 +0000

Hey Kim,
thanks for another handy techie tip. I love how you’re always on the leading edge of the latest and greatest in how to’s on blogging. You do exceptionally well to stay up with it all. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers
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By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 00:38:54 +0000

Thanks Kim, i just updated on my blog. I thought nested comments were when you did not make the comment public until you were ready to approve and reply. You learn something everyday in this game
Cheers,
Matt

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By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:53:19 +0000

Hey Kim

This is a big deal I find. I found this out a few months ago and I love the feel that it give the blog. Now it actually looks like there are conversations on a blog, not just a bunch of comments.

Thanks so much for adding this, I feel more people need to be doing this.

Steve
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By: Kimberly Castleberry

Kimberly Castleberry — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:01:35 +0000

Yay! Glad it worked for you. Its such a simple little tidbit that I’m not sure why its not enabled by default since majority of themes now support it. (Surprisingly some woothemes still need the plugin. Surprising since they’re a great theme shop.)

By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:28:11 +0000

Yay! Thank you so much Kimberly. I’d been struggling with trying to figure out this for some time. It is now working perfectly (i think!) on my blog.
Your directions were suburb.
Very grateful
Sally

By: Kimberly Castleberry

Kimberly Castleberry — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:21:00 +0000

Yay! Glad it worked for you Eiji! You’re blog is looking great, I’ll stop by soon!

By: Eiji Morishita

Eiji Morishita — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:16:09 +0000

Thanks again! Just the one change in settings worked and didn’t need the plugin.

I used another plugin to do it in the past and it messed up the formatting so I gave up on it. Thanks Kim for making my life simpler.

To Your Genius,
Eiji
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