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?

78 Comments to “Threaded Comments for WordPress”

  1. [...] 02. Brian’s Threaded Comments – This gives you threaded/nested comments and a “wandering” comment form.  To be honest, I’m not sure what the “wandering” comment form is all about,  the threaded comments worked nearly perfectly out-of-the-box. I have modified the plugin code slightly. For more, check out my previous post. [...]

  2. [...] 02. Brian’s Threaded Comments – This gives you threaded/nested comments and a “wandering” comment form. To be honest, I’m not sure what the “wandering” comment form is all about, the threaded comments worked nearly perfectly out-of-the-box. I have modified the plugin code slightly. For more, check out my previous post. [...]

  3. TJ says:

    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.

  4. bgriswold says:

    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.

  5. naisioxerloro says:

    Hi.
    Good design, who make it?

  6. bgriswold says:

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

  7. Can you give this plugins? Thanks.

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  9. Ed says:

    How deeply do they nest?

  10. Ed says:

    How deeply do they nest and nest?

  11. Ed says:

    How deeply do they nest and nest and nest?

  12. PixlNinja says:

    I want to test this template

  13. chris christopherson says:

    this is just what i was looking for!

  14. chooddemi says:

    Is this gonna end someday??

  15. AMistyCrissy says:

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    I guess johnnycoder.com – beautiful name for this site! ;)
    It is so cool here, especially in this category.
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  16. 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!

  17. papa says:

    testing on each own

  18. papa says:

    responding to the 2nd

  19. Jason says:

    It would be interesting to know details

  20. Lae says:

    very smart one… i like it!

  21. preaxz says:

    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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