[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16252: Allow comment reparenting to fix poor threading

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#16252: Allow comment reparenting to fix poor threading
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 Reporter:  Otto42                               |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request                      |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
                                                 |  Release
Component:  Comments                             |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing needs-       |     Focuses:
  refresh needs-design-feedback                  |
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Comment (by llizard):

 Replying to [comment:27 SergeyBiryukov]:
 > #59952 was marked as a duplicate.

 I see that the initial ticket was created 13 years ago. That seems to be a
 very long time to be tracking the enhancement. Plugins for this
 enhancement were indeed created. However, plugins have a way of becoming
 obsolete as they are not kept up to date (searching for plugins to do this
 produced at least three that have not been tested for 6.4 and the message,
 "This plugin hasn't been tested with the latest 3 major releases of
 WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have
 compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress").

 I urge you to follow MattyRob's 6 year old advice:

   There are plugins available of course but the code overhead of loading
 an entire plugin to address what is covered in the patch above which
 contains 12 new lines of code seems like a good reason to have this in
 core. Additionally, there may be a good number of users looking for this
 who cannot find the plugins (as they haven't been updated for years) to
 deliver the functionality.

 Thank you.

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