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How to Easily Create Threaded Comments in WordPress
Hello, I’m MaAnna with BlogAid, and in this quick video I’ll show you the easy way to
create threaded comments on your blog posts. The reason you want to do this is to help
visitors easily follow a conversation of replies, and, to help your own responses stand out
a bit more.
There are plugins that can do fancy things with comments, but what I’m going to show
you is built-in to WordPress, so you won’t have to rely on a plugin to get this cool
feature.
Let’s have a look at how threaded comments appear.
Here’s the end of one of my posts and you can see that there are 12 comments, including
those left by me in response to what visitors said.
As you can see, my initial reply to Tyler’s comment is indented slightly.
For demonstration purposes, I made a reply to my own reply, so you could see the next
level of indentation to the thread. There are 10 levels of indentation available.
Below that is the next comment from Cyndi, who is another visitor, and a super site designer
too. Her comment is new, and not part of the conversation between me and Tyler, so it is
not indented.
But my reply to her is.
Now, a lot of themes will show the person’s gravatar image on the left, and if your theme
does that, it will really make these indentations more apparent because folks will naturally
look at faces first and they’ll see a bit of a zig zag pattern.
Okay, now that you know the end result, let me show you how easy it is to create these.
From your Dashboard, go to Settings > Discussion.
In the “Other comment settings” section, you’ll find a checkbox to enable threaded
comments.
Check that.
In the drop-down, you can select how many levels deep you want comments to go.
There are 10 available. But keep in mind that each one will be indented by about 10 pixels,
which means that if you select 10 levels, some could be indented by as much as 100 pixels.
And honestly, few threads get that many replies to replies. So, a setting of 5 should be plenty
for most bloggers.
When you’re finished, be sure to scroll down to the end of the page and click the
blue Save Changes button.
That’s all there is too it!
I hope you’ve enjoyed this video on how to easily create threaded comments for your
blog. It’s the same type of information I teach in my one-on-one WordPress classes
and full video tutorial library. Be sure to visit BlogAid.net for more tutorials and free
resources to make your site better.