How to Add “delete” and “spam” Buttons to Your Comments

30th Mar 2011 | Posted by reza | 9 Comments

Comment section in a site is really important. It represent interaction between you and your readers. It also keeps posts alive and is an important indicator of a popular post.

Often, We need to edit, delete or mark certain comments as spam. Yes, You can delete or mark them as spam via admin panel, but it would be really nice if We can do it from the blog. By default, WordPress shows the “Edit” link on comments (using the edit_comment_link() function) but not “Delete” or “Spam” links/buttons.

You can read our other tutorial about comment section here :

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Ok, here’s the script to add those buttons.

Open your theme’s functions.php file and paste the following code :


function spam_delete_comment_link($id) {
	global $comment, $post;

	if ( $post->post_type == 'page' ) {
		if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_page', $post->ID ) )
			return;
	} else {
		if ( !current_user_can( 'edit_post', $post->ID ) )
			return;
	}

	$id = $comment->comment_ID;
    
	if ( null === $link )
		$link = __('Edit');
		

	$link = '<a class="comment-edit-link" href="' . get_edit_comment_link( $comment->comment_ID ) . '" title="' . __( 'Edit comment' ) . '">' . $link . '</a>';
	$link = $link . ' | <a href="'.admin_url("comment.php?action=cdc&c=$id").'">del</a> ';
	$link = $link . ' | <a href="'.admin_url("comment.php?action=cdc&dt=spam&c=$id").'">spam</a>';
	$link = $before . $link . $after;
	
	return $link;
}

add_filter('edit_comment_link', 'spam_delete_comment_link');

That’s all. Hope This snippet useful for You

credit : wprecipes and smashingmagazine

1 Comment to “How to Add “delete” and “spam” Buttons to Your Comments”

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Kat Skinner says:

April 15, 2012 at 19:15

Thanks! Just what I needed. This was a quick edit that saved me a lot of time (compared to manually adding the links to wp_list_comments in my theme template.

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