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wp_list_comments In WordPress 2.7

September 18th, 2008 by Michael • WordPress News • 4 Comments

The comment functionality enhances quite a bit in WordPress 2.7. Additional to the possiblility to answer comments directly in your backend, there is also a threaded comment support available. Threaded comments enables users to reply on an exist comment, and the discussion will be displayed threaded or nested. Below you can see a screenshot from the default theme:

If you take a look into comments.php, you will notice some alterations. A short "comment loop" was introduced wp_list_comments() and it manages the complete output of comments. Here is the code:

<?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>
<ol class="commentlist">
<?php wp_list_comments($comments); ?>
</ol>
<?php else: ?>
// some other code
<?php endif; ?>

This purge the comments.php immense. But it might be a disadvantage for theme authors, since they hardly have the possibility to change the output of comments. And that WordPress developers having their own vision of HTML and CSS is a common knowledge. Right now, we have to wait and see, since it's an early version. It will be interesting how this develops.