get_comments(): Enable post_status, post_type

[zeo]

To better extend and improve get_comments() to be use in various ways. Enable get_comments() to retrieve comments based on post 'post status', or post 'post type'.

Currently, even with comment 'status' = approve, it will fetch all comments regardless of 'post status' or 'post type'.

Thoughts?

[nacin]

Patch is doing a bit too much work. We have various helper functions here that can help: get_post_stati, get_post_types, wp_parse_args|str, etc.

[zeo]

refresh patch

[zeo]

This ticket need early attention, because of this changeset [14483]. Even though the comment in Private, or Draft? post is not accessible but it still appear in Recent Comments listing.

[nacin]

Patch still does too much work. See also wp_parse_args.

[zeo]

nacin, obviously you got it. Feel free to fix this. Thanks.

[jorbin]

I'm going to take a crack at this now.

[jorbin]

It's to late in the process for 3.0 to modify the get_comments query. This will need some early attention in the 3.1 cycle to make sure there are no performance penalties

[ryan]

(In [17667]) Allow retrieving comments by post type, status, author, author, name, or parent. Fetch only published posts for recent comments widget. Props filosofo. fixes #16506 #12904