[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #35214: Custom Comment Types

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#35214: Custom Comment Types
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 Reporter:  aaroncampbell            |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  task (blessed)           |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Comments                 |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch has-         |     Focuses:  ui, administration,
  screenshots                        |  template
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Changes (by imath):

 * keywords:  needs-patch => needs-patch has-screenshots


Comment:

 Hi !

 Thanks a lot for everyone's work on this ticket so far. I've been looking
 deeply into it lately and started organizing a patch (from a local
 branch). I understood reading the description of this ticket and some
 comments, there are some huge challenges to accomplish and the road might
 be long (that's probably the reason a plugin has been considered and
 inited).

 Here are my first suggestions about a possible road.

 1) First I though about the semantics and came to the conclusion
 "Comments" should probably not be the name of the Admin Menu and step by
 step I feel we should think of a name that means "All possible
 informations/interactions in return of a post". I'm not english so I might
 have made a wrong choice, but I chose "Feedbacks". I believe this word
 allows types like :

 - comments (text feedbacks),
 - pings (automatic link notification feedbacks)
 - trackbacks (manual link notification feedbacks)
 - reactions (emoji like feedbacks)
 - annotations (Gutenberg's project post content collaboration feedbacks),
 - likes, reviews etc...

 2) Then I thought about the Admin UI. I believe moving it into submenus of
 post types is not a good idea as existing feedbacks (comments, pings,
 trackbacks) can possibly relate to any post types. So it could add a lot
 of sub menus and we'd need to possibly overheat the feedback/comment
 queries to filter according to the post type. So I think a possible way of
 keeping it simple is to use an horizontal navigation. I took some
 inspirations from the Site Health Administration screen and here's how it
 could look like :

 [[Image(https://cldup.com/2SJ4Dp1Yz8.png)]]

 As you can see, I think in this case it's important to detail the comments
 count (or the feedbacks count) according to the type within this
 horizontal navigation.

 3) I've started building some `register_feedback_type()`,
 `create_initial_feedback_types()`, `get_feedback_type_object()`,
 `get_feedback_type_labels()` etc.. functions and a `WP_Feedback_Type`
 class borrows heavily from the Post Types API.

 There's still a lot of work to do before I can share a patch on this
 ticket. I thought before carrying on working on it, it would be wiser to
 have your opinions about these suggestions. So thanks in advance for your
 ''feedbacks'' 😉

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