2 Ways to Get Article Comments in WordPress

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Comments are used in articles to get questions, feedback, corrections, and more. In this opportunity, Mangcoding will share about 2 Ways to Get Article Comments in WordPress, hopefully, this can help all of you. Without further ado, let’s dive right into it!

I’m sure you’re familiar with the wp_list_comments() function. This function displays comments on the website page.

Why is this function so great and cool?

• First, this function runs a comment loop and assigns a global variable that holds the current depth level of the comment in the loop.
• Second, wp_list_comments allows you to define and choose your own comment template using the callback parameter.

wp_list_comments('callback=my_custom_comment_template');

In my_custom_comment_template(), the global variables $comment_depth and $GLOBALS[‘comment_depth’] will be set.

What if you want to get the comment depth level when the global variable $comment_depth is not available? And you only have the comment ID, for example?

You can use the function below to solve this issue:

function rudr_get_comment_depth( $my_comment_id ) {
    $depth_level = 0;
    while( $my_comment_id > 0  ) { // if you have ideas how we can do it without a loop, please, share it with us in comments
        $my_comment = get_comment( $my_comment_id );
        $my_comment_id = $my_comment->comment_parent;
        $depth_level++;
    }
    return $depth_level;
}

Then, also use this command:

echo rudr_get_comment_depth( 784 ); // print the depth level of comment 784

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Reference : rudrastyh.com