[wp-testers] Replying To Comments In Backend

Jeff Chandler jeffro at jeffro2pt0.com
Mon Nov 17 00:37:19 GMT 2008


Yep. I am talking about replying to comments from the dashboard.

Kirk M wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> On your first issue. Are you referring to the comments section in the 
> Dashboard? If so I have to agree. Perhaps the comment sections could 
> be made to be expanded? Otherwise, I'm looking at my Comments page in 
> the Admin (latest 2.7 auto-update) and the entire comment is there in 
> each single comment section. Each single comment section is expanded 
> to the width of the actual comment length. Hitting the "Reply" link 
> drops the reply to comment editor underneath that particular comment 
> section so I can easily refer to the entire comment when replying. Not 
> arguing your point at all, just wondering where you're seeing this.
>
> I have to agree with your second point, the title of the post really 
> needs to be linked to the actual post and the # symbol linked to the 
> edit page for that post (in case someone comments that something that 
> needs to be changed?).
>
> On 11/16/2008 6:29 PM, Jeff Chandler wrote:
>> This has been a longstanding issue for me since the ability to reply 
>> to comments was added to the backend. For starters, there is no way 
>> for me to read the entire comment if it is longer than the box it is 
>> displayed in. This makes replying difficult since I can't see the 
>> whole message. I recommend either having a display full comment link 
>> or when I click on Reply, I get to see the entire comment I am 
>> replying to.
>>
>> Secondly, it drives me nuts that when I click on the post title that 
>> the comment was published on, it takes me to the post editor and not 
>> the actual post. What kind of logic is that? I'd rather see it work 
>> where I click on the post title link and it takes me to that post and 
>> then to the actual comment on the page. That would work much better 
>> in my opinion.
>>
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