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One of these other plugins may meet your needs better.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/change-comment-parent\/\">Change Comment Parent<\/a> allows you to modify the parent comment by clicking on the comments on the front-end.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/yoast-comment-hacks\/\">Yoast Comment Hacks<\/a> includes many different pieces of comment related functionality, this is one of them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>Image Credit<\/h4>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/speech-bubbles-dialog-comments-talk-305824\/\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n\n<h4>Author<\/h4>\n\n<p>Built by <a href=\"http:\/\/salferrarello.com\/\">Sal Ferrarello<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/salcode\">@salcode<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Install plugin from WordPress plugin repository http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/<\/li>\n<li>Activate Stop Emails through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<h4>Manual Installation<\/h4>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Upload the entire <code>stop-emails<\/code> directory to the <code>\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> directory.<\/li>\n<li>Activate Stop Emails through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<h4>mu-plugin Installation<\/h4>\n\n<ol>\n<li>If the directory <code>wp-content\/mu-plugins\/<\/code> does not exist, create it.<\/li>\n<li>Upload the single file <code>modify-comment-parent.php<\/code> to the  <code>wp-content\/mu-plugins\/<\/code> directory<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id='what%20if%20i%20assign%20a%20parent%20id%20that%20does%20not%20exist%3F'><h3>What if I assign a parent ID that does not exist?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>The comment will not appear.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id='what%20if%20i%20assign%20a%20parent%20id%20for%20a%20comment%20on%20another%20post%3F'><h3>What if I assign a parent ID for a comment on another post?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>The comment will not appear.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id='how%20do%20i%20remove%20the%20parent%20id%3F'><h3>How do I remove the parent ID?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>You can either delete the parent ID entirely or set it to zero.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id='where%20can%20i%20report%20a%20bug%3F'><h3>Where can I report a bug?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Please report bugs at https:\/\/github.com\/salcode\/modify-comment-parent\/issues<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>1.0.3<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Remove extraneous <code>return $post_id;<\/code> to prevent PHP Warning <code>Undefined variable $post_id<\/code> (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/salcode\/modify-comment-parent\/issues\/6\">#6<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.0.2<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Replace <code>FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING<\/code> with <code>FILTER_UNSAFE_RAW<\/code> (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/salcode\/modify-comment-parent\/issues\/2\">#2<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.0.1<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Increase text input box width. 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