Having a spam and delete button in the WordPress blog post comment section allows administrators to manage unwanted comments with a single click. This article shows how to add the spam and delete button to the WordPress blog comment area using PHP code.
Follow the steps below to edit your Theme setting file to add spam and delete button in the comment section.
On the Theme Editor , select the Theme you want to edit from the dropdown:
The files for this selected theme is listed on the right column under Theme Files. Click on the file named “functions.php”:
Insert the following code to the end of functions.php file:
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');
The delete and spam link is added to the comments section.
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