Change WordPress Comment Order via the Database

Okay, let’s say you took forever to respond to a comment on your WordPress site and you didn’t get to reply before a new comment showed up. I know I know. I should be using nested comments  but I’m not. Here’s what I did to fix it:

1. Go to your wp_comments table in your WordPress database (remember, we’re assuming you WANT to mess around with your database entries here and that this is a one time fix).
2. Look for the field called comment_date_gmt and change the dates or times for the poorly timed reply so it’s just after the comment you want to reply to. You can see what each of the comments contains by looking at the contents field if you need to.

That’s it. Now the comments will appear in the order you need them to be. If someone knows of a plugin for this I’d love to see it. Not very complicated I know :)

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