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Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

#55470 new enhancement

Allow for finer-grained callbacks for wp_list_comment

Reported by: dshanske's profile dshanske Owned by:
Milestone: Awaiting Review Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 2.7
Component: Comments Keywords:
Focuses: Cc:

Description

I've implemented a variety of different custom comment types, so logically, I'd like to allow for default customized comment output for these different types and still allow a theoretical theme to provide its own callback.

Unfortunately, the only two options are a custom callback or a custom Comment Walker. Using the 'wp_list_comments_args' filter to make a custom comment walker the default, and reimplementing the start_el option is the only way to do this...but this means again, the possibility of unanticipated interaction.

So, in thinking about this, proposing two enhancement options...looking for thoughts before I write up some code for consideration.

  1. Enhance the callback argument in wp_list_comments. Allow it to be an associative array or a string. If an associative array, the key would be comment_type. It would allow the 'all' parameter key, which would mean that the 'all' callback would be used if nothing more specific was provided. If this is a string, it would just set that to the all parameter and use the same logic. This would allow differing callbacks to be called per comment...if you choose to display them mixed.
  2. Add a filter inside start_el to allow for greater logic at this point before triggering the built-in or custom callback on a per-comment basis.

Now, ideally, the solutions would be found in #35214 with some form of comment registration, but as that would have to be backward compatible, and that it has been 6 years since that conversation started suggests this simpler solution may make sense in the interim and even afterward.

Change History (1)

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3 years ago

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