[wp-hackers] Hooking into Comments

[Bill Smith]

Robert Deaton wrote:

>If I remember correct, you should be able to make your own post type
>and just make a blank post for where you want comments to be. Posts
>without one of the pre-defined types by WordPress won't be shown, so
>the user never really has to know.
>
>On 8/20/05, Matthew Mullenweg <m at mullenweg.com> wrote:
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>>gallery.manager at hiveworks.com wrote:
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>>>I had a look at the WP code but I couldn't find any way to hook into
>>>comments. They seem to be hardwired to posts.
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>>Comments must be attached to posts, but posts are extremely flexible in
>>their type. We even have sub-posts.
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I'm curious about this too. The only thing I could find that might 
identify "type" is the post_status column. Because the sql defines it as 
an enum, you can't set it to anything other than 'publish', 'draft', 
'private', 'static', or 'object'. Is there another way of identifying  a 
specially typed post?