[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #37826: Can't manage comments of trashed posts

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#37826: Can't manage comments of trashed posts
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 Reporter:  swissspidy       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Comments         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-screenshots  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by FolioVision):

 > Funnily, when I trash a post and go to the edit screen of a single
 comment for that post, i.e. `/wp-
 admin/comment.php?action=editcomment&c=6`, I can still "edit" that
 comment.  To be more precise, I can see the edit form and change any
 information, but when clicking on "Update", I get redirected to the empty
 comment list table and the comment wasn't updated at all.

 Good detective work. Is the consensus we should actively delete these
 comments? I suppose they could be considered detritus in the database.
 Nothing serious if there's only a few dozen but if someone is cleaning up
 a site with posts with hundreds of unwanted comments, the cleanup could
 matter.

 For simplicity's sake, we should probably break the comment cleanup out
 into another ticket if we agree that we want it too. Our priority here is
 users access to content in the WordPress trash.

 My take is that content in the trash shouldn't be accessible and we just
 need more elegant notifications (preferably with no screen reload, even
 for users without javascript enabled).

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/37826#comment:6>
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