UPDATE: I disabled threaded comments on 3/17/2009 when I updated my theme.  I can still recommend the nest comments plugin (below) as I used it for years, but I no longer have anything to show for it. 

To be honest, I am very surprised that threaded (or nested) comments don’t come out-of-the-box with a fresh WordPress installation. It’s not that I’m knocking WordPress. It’s great, but if every blogger would want this feature shouldn’t it be rolled into the product? Okay. Free is free. I’m done looking a gift horse in the mouth…

Though I don’t know a lick of PHP, I have found the WordPress code base is easy to manipulate so I added threaded comment support to the site last night. The functionality is heavily-based on Brian Meidell’s Nested Comments Plugin. He did a really nice job, but I made a handful of tweaks to address a few site/browser style sheet issues and I modified the verbiage slightly.

I’m happy with the implementation. How about you?

38 Responses to “Threaded Comments for WordPress”

  1. Hi johnny, I was wondering whether your modified plugin works fine? I have the plugin activated on my blog but it’ts not working, I mean I dont see a ‘reply this comment’ button on my comments I wonder why! Does it require any tweaking of the code or anything that I dont know about? Appreciate your help btw.
    Thanks.

  2. Hi TJ. Sorry for the slow reply. If I recall, I did need to make minor tweaks to the code but it was for cosmetic reasons only. Sorry me an email via my contact page and I will send you what I have.

  3. Hi.
    Good design, who make it?

  4. You are not the first to ask. :) You will find your answer here.

  5. Can you give this plugins? Thanks.

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  7. How deeply do they nest?

  8. How deeply do they nest and nest?

  9. How deeply do they nest and nest and nest?

  10. I want to test this template

  11. chris christopherson
    June 13th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    this is just what i was looking for!

  12. hehe +1 :)

  13. Is this gonna end someday??

  14. Hi! I’m Crystal. I am almost 18. :)
    I guess johnnycoder.com - beautiful name for this site! ;)
    It is so cool here, especially in this category.
    I was surfed about 2 hours before found this site. I think i’ll be here for a long time! :-*

  15. I’d be very interested in playing around with your version of the nested comments plugin. Are you willing to share? If so, please email me.

    Thanks!

  16. testing on each own

  17. responding to the 2nd

  18. 2nd

  19. It would be interesting to know details

  20. very smart one… i like it!

  21. 3rd

  22. Thanks!,

  23. O .. that’s how. Now i see ..
    I’m desperately looking for the reason why there’s no such “reply to” link in kubrick theme. They should add this feature in the theme package.

    I’ve been trying to guild my own theme since I’ve upgrading to 2.7. Now i think I should create my own “reply to” craps .. hehe

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  33. After reading this blog makes me want to start my own :)

  34. @Virginie - I love hearing that. When/if you get your blog in place, let me know and I’ll subscribe. Best of luck.

  35. Stunning blog and good article. High 5 for u man !

  36. This is a very good stuff man. But you can be more specific next time. See ya !

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