[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #7751: Make it obvious to moderator if they are about to reject a published photo

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#7751: Make it obvious to moderator if they are about to reject a published photo
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 Reporter:  coffee2code      |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement      |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |  Milestone:
Component:  Photo Directory  |   Keywords:
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 When editing a photo, it's not always obvious if the photo has been
 published or is awaiting moderation. Of course there are some indicators,
 such as the 'Publish' metabox 'Status' and 'Publish' field values, and the
 action button text being based on context. It's worth keeping in mind that
 rejecting a photo is a destructive process in that the associated photo
 gets deleted from the server and thus the rejection can't be undone.

 But mistakes happen. When editing a photo, if a moderator thought that
 photo was pending (despite actually being published), their focus might
 not be with the upper part of the 'Publish' metabox, but with just about
 everything else. And a published photo could get rejected. While this
 issue doesn't happen very often, we would do well to provide additional
 cues to the moderator to make it much more obvious that they are operating
 on a published photo.

 I propose a change and two additions:

 1. The rejection reason dropdown should be disabled by default for
 published photos. ''But since we still want moderators to be able to
 reject published photos...''
 2. Add a checkbox above the rejection reason dropdown that enables the
 dropdown. The label should be something like "Allow rejection of published
 photo?". This serves as an implicit notice that the current post is
 published. And it requires the moderator to intervene if they actually
 want to perform a rejection. This could deter any further effort to review
 if that's not their intent.
 3. Add a warning above the "Reject" button that only appears if a
 rejection reason is chosen for an already-published post (and thus the
 "Reject" button becomes enabled). This is a final, more emphatic notice at
 the point of pressing the button.

 With these changes in place, I would imagine it would be hard to overlook
 that a published photo is about to be rejected.

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