[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12668: Better support for custom comment types

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#12668: Better support for custom comment types
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 Reporter:  ptahdunbar                  |       Owner:  ptahdunbar
     Type:  enhancement                 |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                      |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Comments                    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                      |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-unit-tests  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by mordauk):

 Replying to [comment:58 boonebgorges]:
 > Some thoughts about core and default settings. Current behavior of the
 Dashboard widget, edit-comments.php, WP_Widget_Recent_Comments is to show
 all comment types. This is, of course, the very thing we're trying to
 "fix". But there are probably many cases where the existing behavior is
 being relied upon by users and by plugins. Changing the defaults for these
 UIs so that only core comments appear has the potential to confuse. And in
 the case of edit-comments.php, it's likely that in many cases, removing
 non-core comments from this display will make it impossible for users to
 moderate/edit custom comments. Some plugins will add their own interface,
 or will filter `admin_comment_types_dropdown`, but many will not. We might
 want to consider a more conservative route of keeping the current default
 behavior, but providing more robust filters, so that plugins that add
 custom comment types can easily exclude them from these interfaces. Do
 others have thoughts about this?

 For all intensive purposes, "all comment types" is the same as showing
 pingbacks, trackbacks, and standard comments (no explicit type).

 I'd propose we keep it that way by having `WP_Comment_Query` default to
 showing just those three types if no type/s is set.

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