Realigning the Discussions Settings page

[saltcod]

[I looked for some tikets for this but didn't find any directly related, so hopefully I haven't missed a big one out there floating around.]

The Discussions Settings page (options-discussion.php) always trips me up when setting up a new site. There's a lot of options, descriptions, directions, etc on that page — much of which is probably unavoidable. When I visit it, I always think that the hierarchy isn't quite right.

To help with this, I thought of two half-measures.

1. A very simple solution:

Put the "Allow people to post comments on new posts" at the top of the options list, with a little space below it. That would make that option the most prominent on the page, without making it stand out too much.

Like this:

2. A more involved solution:

I really like the new click-to-reveal-the-options at work in the "Page on Front" (#16379) workflow and thought it might work well here.

*Something* in this direction:

The first could be accomplished for 3.5, but the second re-working could be a further down the line item.

[DrewAPicture]

+1 for the second one. I too really like the "reveal-when-enabled" functionality added to the Page on Front settings.

[nacin]

Just because you can set new posts to have comments off by default, doesn't mean that all of the other options can be hidden — they are still applicable.

[saltcod]

Replying to nacin:

Just because you can set new posts to have comments off by default, doesn't mean that all of the other options can be hidden — they are still applicable.

For sure. My quick mockup doesn't account for any of the logic / grouping that would need to happen.

Any thoughts on the first option? I feel like that option is primarily why I go to that page (at least the first time) but it's a bit hidden.

[DrewAPicture]

Replying to nacin:

Just because you can set new posts to have comments off by default, doesn't mean that all of the other options can be hidden — they are still applicable.

Was just commenting to this effect.

Replying to saltcod:

Any thoughts on the first option? I feel like that option is primarily why I go to that page (at least the first time) but it's a bit hidden.

I can certainly see rearranging the hierarchy of the options to make things more clear.

[obenland]

Rearranges hierarchy in default articles settings

[helen]

As mentioned in IRC, holding off on this given explorations being done on revamping settings screens entirely.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Related: #27111

[chriscct7]

I'll get the re-arrangement part refreshed