[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #4529: "Trash" status for comments and posts

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#4529: "Trash" status for comments and posts
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 Reporter:  markjaquith     |       Owner:  caesarsgrunt
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  accepted    
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  2.9         
Component:  Administration  |     Version:              
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:  has-patch   
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Comment(by caesarsgrunt):

 I agree that an undo feature should be added, but I think that this trash
 status is needed ''as well''.[[BR]]
 For a start, the concept of something which is deleted going to a trash
 bin and being recoverable is familiar to most people as this is how many
 other computer interfaces work.[[BR]]
 But also, for an "undo" feature to work, the deleted comment has to be
 kept at least until the next page load. My patch therefore provides a
 large part of the backend for the undo feature.[[BR]]
 I will add the undo feature to my patch later - this will be fairly easy.

 Regarding the exact system for deleting comments after a specified time, I
 suppose we could do it that way, but it would require a new column in the
 comments database table, which would be more complex, and it would require
 a script to check every comment every day to find out whether it should be
 deleted, rather than just scheduling deletion for individual
 comments.[[BR]]
 Alternatively we could use a new row in the options table and just list
 each deleted comment and the date when it was deleted, but this would
 still require that a script be run every day even when there are no
 comments to be deleted.

 I might also make it so that when spam comments are deleted they skip the
 trash altogether - this is how most email clients work, and additionally
 it avoids the scheduling of a lot of deletions.

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