The below notes are for myself, as much as anyone else. These are changes to WordPress recently related to proposals and tickets I opened. In order to take advantage of them, I do need to refer to literature…and there isn’t none.
Insert Comment with Meta
wp_insert_comment has a modification that allows comment meta to be added to a comment at the time it is created.
// If metadata is provided, store it.
if( isset($commentdata['comment_meta'] ) &&is_array($commentdata['comment_meta'] ) ) {
foreach($commentdata['comment_meta']as$meta_key=>$meta_value) {
add_comment_meta($comment->comment_ID,$meta_key,$meta_value, true );
}
}
So, if there is an array in $commentdata called comment_meta, save those keys as comment_meta.
Changes due Pingback
In WordPress 4.5, a slight change will allow the retrieved source code of a site that has sent a pingback to WordPress to be accessible in $commentdata as ‘remote_source_original’. But more importantly, there is now a pathway to access this data in action ‘comment_post’
do_action( 'comment_post', $comment_ID, $commentdata['comment_approved'], $commentdata );
Comment Notification Changes
A lot of this came out of a problem I had last June where updates to comments to make them more rich…in this case pingbacks/webmentions/etc were happening after the notification was sent out. So now, notifications also are triggered by ‘comment_post’.
What Do I Want to Build?
All of these little changes serve to enhance the work I’ve been trying to do with webmentions.