Problem moving nested comments

What do you mean exactly? When you move an original comment, all of the nested comments under that original comment will be move as well (including the original one that you have chosen).

What kind of behavior are you expecting? Are you expecting original comments to be move as well when you move a nested one. For example:

-Original comment #1
-Nested comment 1 to original comment #1
-Nested comment 2 to original comment #1

So when I move Nested comment 2 to original comment #1, you are expecting Original comment #1 and Nested comment 1 to original comment #1 to be move as well?

In this case, I don’t think so that is a desired behavior because nested comments can be off-topic and not necessarily related to the original comment.

Thanks for replying. I am trying to move the entire thread of comments to a new page/post and preserve its nesting. When I select “Edit” beside a comment that has replies, I get the “Edit comment” screen for that comment. When I select the destination, all of the replies move, but they are no longer nested. The original comment that I tried to move stays in its original location.

I’ve updated to the latest version of the plugin (1.0.5) and the behavior is the same.

Here is an example of what is happening:

PAGE 1
|-Comment 1
|–Nested Comment 1
|—Nested Comment 1a
|–Nested Comment 2
|—Nested Comment 2a

I click edit beside Comment 1 and try to move it to Page 2. The result is like this:

PAGE 1
|-Comment 1

PAGE 2
|-Comment 1a
|-Comment 2
|-Comment 2a

I would expect this:

PAGE 1
No comments

PAGE 2
|-Comment 1
|–Nested Comment 1
|—Nested Comment 1a
|–Nested Comment 2
|—Nested Comment 2a

WordPress finally showed me the 1.0.6 version as being available so I installed it. It is better but still not exactly as I would expect.

1.0.6 moves the original, but still flattens out the thread so all nested comments are on the same level. The expected behaviour would be that the moved comments would retain their nesting.

Thanks for explaining. I am not able to reproduce this error actually but I will take a look into it.

Oh wow, I managed reproduce this after playing around with it. I was not sure what I did. I was just adding nested comments like the format you have mention. However, I manage to get all the original comment and the nested comments moving as normal. All I did was, I move the original comment once again to the desired post. Once that is done, I checked again and the original comment + nested comments are moved properly without the nested comments being flatten out.

Why don’t you try and move the original comment again and see if it works because moving the original comment works for me after trying it one more time. I am not sure whats causing the nested comments to be flatten out but I will take a look at it. Thanks!

After tinkering around again, I notice that if I add nested comments (on the dashboard; not through the site) AFTER moving comments with the bulk move comments feature, the newly added nested comments will be flatten out and will be separated with the original comment. However, moving the original comment to the desired post will remedy this problem and nest the comments out all again.

Is this how you manage to find this bug? U added nested comments through the dashboard? There must be a bug with the templating of bulk comments if this is how you discovered it.

Just try and move the original comment once again and you should get a nicely formatted comment with its children comments. I hope it helps.

I did more investigation and figured out what’s happening. If you move an original comment, it preserves the nesting perfectly. However, if you move a sub-comment, the nesting breaks for all the comments below that sub-comment. For example:

PAGE 1
|-Comment 1
|–Comment 1a
|—Comment 1ai
|—Comment 1aii

Moving comment 1a to PAGE 2 results in a flat structure like this:

PAGE 2
|-Comment 1a
|-Comment 1ai
|-Comment 1aii

instead of what I would expect:

PAGE 2
|-Comment 1a
|–Comment 1ai
|–Comment 1aii

It’s not the end of the world, but it just wasn’t what I expected. I thought it would preserve the hierarchy. Nonetheless, I’m perfectly happy to use your fantastic plugin as it is now and give you massive thanks for all the work you’ve saved me already.

Oh wow! Thanks for the heads up, kevinthom. I will check this out and see what can be done to remedy that. That’s what I am expecting as well. It is suppose to behave that way and last time I checked, it did. But with the new WP update and all, it may have messed with this behavior. Thanks for explaining it in detail to me. At least I know what is the problem now.