id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
16430	Comment 'Reply' button still present when comment max depth has been reached, just without text.	TheGremlyn		"With comment max depth set, in my case, to 5 on the admin panel, the div for the reply link would still appear even though the text that says 'Reply' would not. Basically, it was an empty div with class=""reply"". The fix is quite easy, which I implemented in test on one of my WP sites.

Around line 1372 of wp-includes/comment-template.php, there is the following is code:
{{{
<div class=""reply"">
<?php comment_reply_link(array_merge( $args, array('add_below' => $add_below, 'depth' => $depth, 'max_depth' => $args['max_depth']))) ?>
</div>
}}}

This can simply be enhanced to this:
{{{
<?php if ( $depth < $args['max_depth'] ) : ?>
<div class=""reply"">
<?php comment_reply_link(array_merge( $args, array('add_below' => $add_below, 'depth' => $depth, 'max_depth' => $args['max_depth']))) ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
}}}

I just added a quick check to make sure our current comment depth did not meet (or somehow exceed?) our set max depth."	defect (bug)	new	normal	Awaiting Review	Comments	3.0.4	normal		has-patch	TheGremlyn