Close comments on attached images

[dohman]

In posts, for gallery images and individual images which open in an attachment page when clicked, the image attachment page does not close comments after the designated xx days as the original post does.

This creates a pile of spam to manage for users that rely on closed comments after xx days and post lots of images.

You can replicate the problem with these steps:
1) In Discussion Settings: set comments to close after 1 day. 'Automatically close comments on articles older than 1 days'

2)Create a post with publish date 2 days ago. Insert an image or gallery which opens in in an attachment page, not just as the image file.

3) The post will have comments closed.

4) The image attachment page will still have comments open.

Here's a test post of mine. Notice the comments closed on the post but still open for the images.
​http://hackhappy.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/image-attachment-comment-test/

Bottom Line: Comments should also close after xx days for image attachments, just as the post does. Users reasonably expect this.

Check the post type for image attachment page. It may be marked as a regular page as pages are not controlled by this setting.

[nacin]

Caused by #16090.

[nacin]

19858.diff​ simply adds 'attachment' to the array of post types to be closed. It's kind of weak — we should probably check the parent of the attachment to ensure it is either 0 or a post type of 'post' (the filter result) before continuing.

[westi]

Replying to nacin:

19858.diff​ simply adds 'attachment' to the array of post types to be closed. It's kind of weak — we should probably check the parent of the attachment to ensure it is either 0 or a post type of 'post' (the filter result) before continuing.

Maybe we should be using the status of inherit to mean we look at the parent in this filter instead?

So if post-status is inherit we look at the parent's post type and date

[solarissmoke]

Related: #8177 and #9839

[nacin]

get_post_status() could be used here to check inherit-ness. Needs patch.

[Mamaduka]

Attached patch with inherit-ness check.

[anonymized_126485]

The Settings > Discussion menu should have another checkbox, "Allow people to post comments on new attachments." The "attachment pages" are quite well hidden from most viewers and admins, and on most sites they are accessible only to spambots. Attachment comments thus should be globally disallowable even if a site permits posts to have comments.

[helenyhou]

Replying to wlindley:

The Settings > Discussion menu should have another checkbox, "Allow people to post comments on new attachments."

I don't think another option is needed here, and I think this ticket is about automatically closing comments after X days. Also related to your idea, and may very well take care of it: #21391

[ocean90]

For the same reason as in comment ticket:8177:33 attachment posts shouldn't be auto closed by default.

You can easily adjust this by the close_comments_for_post_types filter.

Replying to wlindley:

The Settings > Discussion menu should have another checkbox,…

See #12991.

[SergeyBiryukov]

This sounds like a duplicate of #8177 to me.

[wonderboymusic]

Duplicate of #8177.