Change 'View Comment' button on comment.php?action=editcomment

[ocean90]

To be consistent with other screens the object should be removed.

Or Jane's words:

that really ought to get moved out of the box altogether, but that's too big to be doing this late in cycle

[lessbloat]

Hey ocean90,

I think I'm missing something here. Can you please provide some more details.

It sounds to me like you are proposing removing the "View comment" button in the right-hand "Status" box of comment.php?action=editcomment. Is that right?

It seems to me that that button is consistent with the edit posts page which has a "Preview changes" button.

[ocean90]

No, I mean to remove the word "Comment", see patch.

[lessbloat]

Hmm... I think I actually prefer the more descriptive "View comment" than just "View". Especially since we've got the space.

Can you talk me through why you like "View" better?

[ocean90]

Hey, the ticket is 8 months old, but I think it was a reaction on a comment by Jane on IRC. :)

[jane]

View and Preview are fundamentally different things, and View links/buttons have a different place in the UI than Preview.

[DrewAPicture]

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[DrewAPicture]

Replying to jane:

View and Preview are fundamentally different things, and View links/buttons have a different place in the UI than Preview.

... that really ought to get moved out of the box altogether

I agree. I think the Status box on edit-comment has ended up as sort of a dumping ground for all associated information for a comment. Plus the meta box name, Status, is kind of a misnomer and doesn't really follow the verb naming scheme like are used on Posts and Media for instance, which use Publish and Save, respectively.

• Unlike posts, comments have a 'View Comment'-type button, never a preview button (dissimilar concepts)
• Unlike posts, clicking Update redirects back to the comments screen so no editor messaging
• Unlike posts, comments don't have statuses or visibility settings
• Like posts, comments essentially have a permalink
• Like posts, comments have an editing screen

In 19168.2.patch​ I've moved the 'View Comment' button from the Status meta box to a slug box that displays the permalink just like we do for posts and media. See comment_permalink.png​ for what a first run of this might look like.

There's a lot more work we could do on this page, but I think this is a pretty good start in unifying the experiences a little bit.

[helen]

I dislike that a "button" is really a link, even if it matches Edit Post. Since the permalink isn't editable, seems like that should just be a link (the way we want it to be on Edit Post as well someday, see #18306). We could possibly even work on that now as well to make them match.

[wonderboymusic]

In 34072:

Edit Comment screen: remove the "View Comment" button (actually a link) from the publish meta box. Mimic the "Edit URL/Permalink" UI from the Edit Post screen to show the comment link below the screen title, but make it an actual link, not a button.

Props ocean90, DrewAPicture, wonderboymusic.
Fixes #19168.