How to Customize Reply Link in WordPress Comment

In most WordPress sites, you may notice a Reply link under each comment. This allows you to reply other person’s comment easily. Here’s an example from Twenty Twelve theme:

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to easily customize the reply link or replace the “Reply” word with your own word. WordPress has a filter called comment_reply_link. This filter accepts few arguments and you may find them from WordPress Codex. If you simply want to replace the “Reply” word with your own words, here’s a working WordPress snippet that can be placed on your theme’s functions.php file.

<?php

// Modify the Reply link
function afn_custom_comment_reply($link) {
	$link = str_replace('Reply', 'Reply to this comment', $link);
	return $link;
}
add_filter('comment_reply_link', 'afn_custom_comment_reply');

What the code does is basically replacing the word “Reply” to “Reply to this comment” phrase. You may change the phrase as needed.

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