[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27111: Turning off global comments should include existing content

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#27111: Turning off global comments should include existing content
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 Reporter:  jenmylo      |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Comments     |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch    |     Focuses:  administration
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Comment (by jackreichert):

 Replying to [comment:14 nacin]:
 >  * You want to disable comments by default for all current posts, too.
 How can we do that without forcibly updating all of them to be 'closed'?
 Store a timestamp in the option. If the post date is earlier than that
 timestamp, then it's 'closed'.
 >
 >  * What if you then want to go back and set one of those posts to
 'open'? This, I am not sure about. This is where forcibly updating the DB
 would have been easier, as there's no transient state then. We would need
 to come up with a new status 'override-open' which forces it to be open,
 even though a filter has dictated it to be closed.

 It the patch I submitted above (#comment:3), instead of changing the
 functionality of `close_comments_for_old_post`, I added an extra option to
 the options table: `global_comment_status`. This way you can close off all
 comments but it wouldn't effect the specific comment's status.

 That solves two problems:
 1) Changing the functionality of something that people are expecting to
 something else.
 2) Allowing an undo option.

 Just a thought.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/27111#comment:15>
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