in Comments, "In response to" should link to the post, not the post editor

[thee17]

Change the # on the comments edit page to be more expressive of what it does.

[markjaquith]

What's your suggestion?

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

I'd suggest removing it, and replacing the edit link to the post with that of the post's permalink.

It makes a lot more sense: "In response to" should be a link to the post, not to the post editor.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Jane's input would be useful here.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

closed #9350 as dup (with a comment from Jane)

[demetris]

This patch is a good fix for that utterly confusing part of the 2.7/2.8 interface.

I approve of it! :-D

[westi]

Punting to 2.9 for Jane to drive a review of the whole page and make it clearer.

Don't tweak, make big improvements.

[janeforshort]

# represents permalink all over the web, which is why it is the link to the live post. The title within the admin is meant to go to the post editor, because that is what post titles do elsewhere in the editor. This change in behavior was intentional.

[demetris]

The change might have been intentional, but this does not mean it was a good one.

Who uses hash signs to represent permalinks today? Do you use them for this in your blog? Does anyone here use them for this on their blogs? Do they mean anything like this to people using WordPress? (I’m far above average in web-savviness and they mean nothing of the sort to me when I see them there.)

In addition, two of the three links there give no information at all when you hover over them. You have to look at the status bar to see what they are. This is like the web 15 years ago.

In short, this area of the Comments page is a complete disaster.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

Replying to demetris:

Who uses hash signs to represent permalinks today? Do you use them for this in your blog? Does anyone here use them for this on their blogs? Do they mean anything like this to people using WordPress? (I’m far above average in web-savviness and they mean nothing of the sort to me when I see them there.)

+1000 :D

[strider72]

+1 from me too. It's a very confusing interface.

Clearly designed by a geek, for a geek. "Regular" people would, I think, assume the "in response to X" link to link the the post to which the comment responds, since that's what it says it links to.

Putting it another way, the comment is not in response to the edit screen.

[jakub.tyrcha]

Refreshed the patch and cleaned up some code

[jane]

I would be willing to change "#" to "View Post" to be more descriptive (and a bigger link target, which is good for accessibility) but don't want to change the behavior of links on this screen so it is out of sync with every other screen in the admin.

[solarissmoke]

This was fixed in #18846 (at least the # issue)

[jane]

Technically should have closed as wontfix, not exactly a dupe.

[solarissmoke]

The original ticket description is a dupe - the title was changed half way through and that sort of changed the whole ticket.