Filter comments by Entry Author in the Control Panel

Question

I've been looking up the hooks that can be used with the Comment Module. But I don't think there is one I could use to filter the list of comments by entry author in the Control Panel. I'm trying to filter that list so users only see the comments on entries they've added.

Is there any existing add-ons that can do this? Or are there any hooks I could use to write an add-on myself?

Thanks in advance! Diederik.

Answer 1

One approach to only show comments on posts that have been authored by the logged in user is to use a conditional comparing logged_in_member_id to author_id. Do this inside your channel entries tag pair and embed the comment entries if the condition is met. Simplified example:

{exp:channel:entries channel="blog"}
    <h1>{title}</h1>
    {if logged_in_member_id == author_id}
        <p>You wrote this post, so can see these comments:</p>
        {embed="embeds/_comments"}
    {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}