Filter custom comment type from Manage Comments & Dash Widgets

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I use comments with a custom comment type in my plugin to notify users of various events created by the plugin.

The problem is I don’t want these cluttering up the standard comments so I need to filter out those custom comments from the manage comments screen as well as the recent comments dashboard widget.

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Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

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  1. Doh, looks like the answer was staring me in the face.

    add_filter( 'comments_clauses', 'myPlugin_exclude_custom_comments', 10, 1);
function myPlugin_exclude_custom_comments( $clauses ) {

    // Hide all those comments which aren't of type system_message
    $clauses['where'] .= ' AND comment_type != "system_message"';   

    return $clauses;
}

    What this does is edit all comment queries to find comments that don’t have a type of system_message

    Hope this helps someone 🙂