Enable some shortcuts, which are added to existing menu items unobtrusively.
Comment Shortcuts enable comment-related items that are shown in existing admin menu items.
For example, there is the Comments menu in the left sidebar. With Comment Shortcuts, you can add the main comment tabs in order to save you a few clicks.
You can configure what displays by heading to the Tools menu and clicking on Comment Shortcuts.
From there, you can configure what displays, and even enable or disable the Count Bubbles next to each menu item.
The next option allows you to hide the comments menu bar item in the admin bar.
You can hide the menu item with one click. If you do have the admin bar item enabled, the next section will cover shortcuts within the admin bar item itself.
When in the admin, you can hover over the Comments admin bar menu item and see the available shortcuts, which are very similar to the options shown in the admin sidebar.
In the admin bar in the admin, you can view:
Approved comments
Pending comments
Spam comments
Trash comments
On the frontend, there are several more options if you are viewing a post with comments.
In addition to the shortcuts to the site's comments, there are several Post Shortcuts.
View approved comments for the post
View pending comments for a post
View spam comments for a post
View trashed comments for a post
There are several advanced options as well:
Close or open comments for a post
Hide or show comments for a post
Delete post comments
You can adjust what is shown in the admin bar through the shortcut options.
If you're ever in a situation where you need to remove all of the post's comments, you can do so with the Delete Post Comments shortcut.
It'll pop-up a modal where you can confirm deletion, and even skip the trash for the deleted comments.
The delete option will delete 30 comments at a time in order to not timeout on your server.
Expire your comments when posts are inactive, not just after several days.
The default behavior of WordPress is to expire a post after 14 days. This feature changes that up.
You can now set up expiration based on post activity. If a post gets updated, or a new comment is posted, the clock resets.
Since expiration goes off of last activity, the number of days will be the amount without any activity.
You can choose to enable this feature for some post types or all post types.
By enabling per-post overrides, each post, page, or post type will have a sidebar option so that you can set the expiration at the post label.
Set the comment status for each post type.
For each post type on the site, you can:
Hide the Comment Section
Enable discussion settings by default (for new items only)
Force comments open, closed, or leave as-is.
Force pingbacks open, closed, or leave as-is.
If you ever want to blanket show or hide comments, the per-post-type settings will prove beneficial.
Tools help make your commenting life much better.
There are several tools in Comment Edit Pro, with more to come. Currently there are two tools available, which allow you to set a comment expiration based on post activity, and the ability to enable/disable comments site-wide per post type.
