Title: Comment Reply Link Missing
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Comment Reply Link Missing

 *  [Anna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ohthenoes/)
 * (@ohthenoes)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-reply-link-missing/)
 * Hi there. There’s no other better explanation than what this guy posted [previously](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/237156?replies=2)(
   no solution found) where he basically says:
 * > What I’d like to accomplish is the following:
   >  I like to add a “Reply to Comment”
   > Link at the lowest allowed Depth in the new 2.7 threaded comments. At the moment
   > I have a depth of 2, so only top comments have the link to reply to them directly
   > and all answers are shown below this comment. If someone else already answered
   > to it, the comments are shown in chronological order. Unfortunately I always
   > have to click on the reply link from the top comment, because the comments 
   > below it don’t show the link.
   > Is it possible to have a reply link on these lowest comments, which does basically
   > the same as the reply link on level above, so that people realize they can 
   > answer here as well?
 * At the moment, I am using comments at depth 2 with the code from the [Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/comment_reply_link)
   which is:
 *     ```
       <?php comment_reply_link(array_merge( $args, array('reply_text' => 'Reply', 'add_below' =>
        $add_below, 'depth' => $depth, 'max_depth' => $args['max_depth']))); ?>
       ```
   
 * However, no “reply” to this comment link appears on the children comments. Please
   help!

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 *  Thread Starter [Anna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ohthenoes/)
 * (@ohthenoes)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-reply-link-missing/#post-1415182)
 * Please help T~T
 * Edit:
 * A little more on my problem:
 * First, is it normal that the reply-to-this-comment-link only shows up on the 
   parent comment and on none of the child comments?
 * I was in here last time asking about it but no one could figure out why it doesn’t
   show up for my child comments. My comments are set to a depth of 2.
 * I managed to solve this (partially) by manually coding out something that creates
   a similar code output as that of the comment_reply_link function but now any 
   comments made using the reply link on a child comment are turned into a parent
   comment unless I change the max depth to 3 wherein it then moves under the child
   comment although any 4th depth comment becomes a parent anyway.
 * My problem could probably be solved if anyone knows how to (if it’s possible)
   create a conditional statement to check whether the comment is a parent or a 
   child?
 *  [keirj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keirj/)
 * (@keirj)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-reply-link-missing/#post-1415397)
 * Hey,
    I’m not sure I’ve got your problem straight in my head. But I had a problem
   with the reply link not showing up. After lots of faffing about, I just copied
   the ‘comments.php’ template from the ‘Default’ theme into my thoroughly customised
   theme. It worked!! K

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## Tags

 * [comment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comment/)
 * [comment threading](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comment-threading/)
 * [reply link](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/reply-link/)
 * [response](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/response/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [keirj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keirj/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-reply-link-missing/#post-1415397)
 * Status: not resolved

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