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When one of my readers asked for the ability to edit comments<\/a> in WordPress, I took that feature request seriously, and decided to find the solution.<\/p>\n When I discovered that Update: More thought has made me realise that adding the feature to edit your own comments is opening a can-of-worms, and the naive solution I originally considered has “security”-style implications.<\/p>\n For example, a malicious commenter could post an innocent comment. The moderator (where appropriate) would approve it. Maybe other people who comment on it, saying “Yes, I agree!” Then the commenter could edit the comment to something that would no longer pass moderation, or is embarassing to the users who are still listed as agreeing with it.<\/p>\n I am not saying it is impossible to do, but just that it needs a lot more analysis than a quick plug-in.<\/p>\n Casey<\/a> has expressed some cogent views on the matter of blog comment\/content management<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When one of my readers asked for the ability to edit comments in WordPress, I took that request seriously, and decided to find the solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,23,25],"tags":[90,85],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-oddthinking","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-insufficiently-advanced-technology","tag-security","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nit<\/a>
\nwas<\/a>
\na<\/a>
\ncommonly<\/a>–requested<\/a>
\nfeature<\/a>,
\nyet<\/a>
\nwas<\/a>
\nstill<\/a>
\nunimplemented<\/a>,
\nI decided not to take it as seriously any more, and gave up instead.<\/p>\n