How to Allow Users to Edit their Comments in WordPress?Have you ever think that your website needs to have edit comment option? May be you wants to change something like mis-spelled words, grammar or error or maybe you hit the button accidentally before finish the comment?
It happens with all of us. The issue is most of the wordpress sites don’t allow to edit their comments once they are published. If you get lots of comments on your site daily, then you may offer users to edit their own comments for a short time span.
Why allow users to edit or delete their comments?
Most WordPress website allows user to submit comments on their posts, pages after providing their name, email & website. However users are not permitted to edit or delete the comment. Sometimes user wants to make changes to its comment after they click on submit button.
Most common scenario is to resolve the mistakes like spelling or a grammatical error. Some users wish to edit their comments to add or remove something. There are also some cases where a user may think about deleting comments because what they wrote is irrelevant.
How to Allow Users to Edit their Comments in WordPress?
Whatever the reason is the best solution is to allow people to edit comments for short time period, maybe the initial 5 to 10 minutes. On this duration, they are allowed to modify or delete their comment.
The reason for giving time duration is to make sure that link builders & spammers don’t abuse the comment section by adding links to their previously approved comments.
Allowing users to edit comments in WordPress:-
Initially you need to install and activate the Simple comment editing plugin. On activation, plugin will allow users to make changes to their comment within 5 minutes. After the initial 5 minutes, users will not able to edit the comments. You can change this time duration from Settings>>Simple Comment Editing in WordPress admin area.
On setting page, you can change time limit how much you want. However its recommended to set under 30 minutes since the purpose is to allow the user to fix the error instantly. Once you have made changes click on save changes to store the settings.