Comment Improvements in WordPress 4.4/4.5

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.

David Shanske

My day job is in training for an airline. I also develop Indieweb WordPress plugins so that others can take control of their online identity.

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