[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18561: Better Way to Insert Things Below Individual Posts

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#18561: Better Way to Insert Things Below Individual Posts
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 Reporter:  jane         |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |    Version:  3.2.1
 Severity:  minor        |   Keywords:
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 More and more plugins want to drop stuff in below each post (especially
 common among plugins focused on encouraging the sharing of content).
 There's not really a great way to do it, though, if your single-post-area
 doesn't end with the last line of body text. Many themes put the
 byline/date/metadata below -- rather than above, which used to be the norm
 -- the post content, including our own Twenty Eleven.  See the screenshot
 to see how ugly it is when a plugin (or two, or more) uses the the_content
 filter to insert something at the "end" of each post.

 Inserting the sharing and like rows (in this example) at the bottom of the
 post text before the byline/classification metadata seems wrong. It should
 go below that, so it is closely related to commenting, not part of the
 content itself. The plugin-generated widget is not "by" the post author,
 after all.

 I have been told that options for addressing this are basically either
 modifying the theme and/or getting a new filter in place. Whatever we need
 to do, let's do it, because misplacing plugin-provided tools inside the
 content rather than after it is a) really bad IA, and b) crazy ugly.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18561>
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