How to change WordPress Comment output via hooks accessing comment meta data?

I am looking to add some meta data to my Woo Commerce product reviews.

My plugin shows which product variant the customer is reviewing, and I wanted to add that information into each of the customer's reviews (comments), with a small thumbnail img of the product varient to fancy things up a bit as well.

But I am having trouble finding a filter / hook to tap into.

I have tried this one...

add_filter( 'comment_text', function( string $comment_text ) {

    $comment_text = '<p>Comment text injection</p>' . $comment_text;

    return $comment_text;
});

It works, but the problem is , it does not provide much context... I need the comment ID so I can grab some meta data about the comment.

The documentation says it is possible to for this filter to have a WP_Comment obj passed with the filter... but that doesn't happen in my case.

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/comment_text

Any suggestions on hooks/filters available to use - I don't really want to have to start hacking the comments template.

The comment_text filter hook allow 3 function arguments (so you missed 2 of them):

• $comment_text (string), the main filtered argument
• $comment (object), the current WP_Comment Object instance
• $args (array), an array of arguments

So in this hooked function, here is an example targeting Order notes for example:

add_filter( 'comment_text', 'customizing_comment_text', 20, 3 );
function customizing_comment_text( $comment_text, $comment, $args ) {
    if( $comment->comment_type === 'review' ) {
        $comment_text = '<p>Comment text injection</p>' . $comment_text;
    }
    return $comment_text;
}

Code goes in functions.php file of your active child theme (or active theme). Tested and work.

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To get specific comment meta data you will use the function get_comment_meta() like:

$meta_value = get_comment_meta( $comment->comment_ID, 'your_meta_key', true );

To Add specific comment meta data you will use the function add_comment_meta() like:

add_comment_meta( $comment_id, 'your_meta_key', $meta_value, $unique );