Comment Parent Link Block

[justintadlock]

One of the features I've implemented in my themes for several years is a comment parent link. Instead of endless indentation of nested comments, I typically cap this off at level 2 or 3. Then, I add a link to the comment parent like so (see third-level comment):

Because blocks are not meant to be registered in themes (and disallowed entirely in the Theme Directory), the only way to implement this will be for core to include such a block.

Here is a full implementation of the PHP code: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2016/11/16/designing-better-nested-comments#in-reply-to-link

[justintadlock]

There doesn't seem to be much traction for this, so I created a block plugin for it instead: https://github.com/x3p0-dev/x3p0-comment-parent-link

Closing this for now, but feel free to reopen if there is any interest in bringing it to core.