At times, it’s annoying to have to go into the Dashboard, just to delete a Comment that has appeared, or to Edit a comment I have made (or fix the text of someone else’s comment).
Luckily, you can create links or buttons to allow you to do these two jobs while viewing a Post page:
In your Comments.html template, find the location you want to put the links. To just have the Edit Comment link (you can delete a comment from it’s editing page), insert the following:
{edit_comment_link}
To have both an Edit and a Delete link, try the following:
{capture name=edit_comment}{edit_comment_link link="✍ Edit"}{/capture}
{if $smarty.capture.edit_comment != ""}
{$smarty.capture.edit_comment}
<a href="http://schinckel.blogsome.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=confirmdeletecomment&comment={comment_ID}">Delete</a>
{/if}
I have mine all nicely styled, using the following (and some CSS):
{capture name=edit_comment}{edit_comment_link link="✍ Edit" before='<span class="button">' after="</span>"}{/capture}
{if $smarty.capture.edit_comment != ""}
<div class="right">
{$smarty.capture.edit_comment}
<span class="button"><a href="http://schinckel.blogsome.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=confirmdeletecomment&comment={comment_ID}">✗ Delete</a></span>
</div>
{/if}
