Comments for pages turned off by default

  • Resolved kostek00

    (@kostek00)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    Most of the time I really don’t care how are you changing WordPress as it doesn’t bothers me at all. But at some point everyone find something which is not good for them. In my example details like removing turned on comments for pages by default annoys me like hell.

    For god sake you have options why don’t you make use of it? Why do you force users with solutions which with not everyone will be happy?

    In options you can tick on “Allow users to comment on new articles” (or something like that). You could just add new field with “Allow users to comment on new pages” and have them choose whether they want turned on comments by default on article and pages or not. Was it so hard to make that? Next time you remove some features think: Does removing this will be usefule for everyone? Does noone use it?

    My site is based on pages not articles so this option is essential for me as I will forget about that little detail to tick on next time I create page and many more times.

    TL;DR;

    Allow users to decide whether they want turned off/on comments on pages and articles by adding in options field “Allow users to comment on new pages”.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    There were no complaints during the months of public development and testing, but I see your point.

    I recommend reporting it at https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/reporting-bugs/

    Thread Starter kostek00

    (@kostek00)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    I’m not using beta release nor visiting dwvelopment section. Thanks for advice I will go there.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    You’re welcome!

    gorky5

    (@gorky5)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hi. I hope it’s OK to comment here – I have precisely the same complaint as kostek00.

    I have hundreds of content-rich pages on my site, am in the process of creating dozens more, and have to remember to open comments on each one. It’s a shame the Discussion settings weren’t used more intelligently to give site owners a choice in the matter.

    James Huff – that link appears to be for reporting bugs and security issues, not for requesting feature changes. Is there a better place to make this request?

    kostek00: You might be interested in this plugin, which seems to restore the previous behaviour (I’ve just added it to my site and created a test page which had comments enabled by default). I do think this is something better served by WordPress settings rather than a third-party plugin though.

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    11 years, 1 month ago

    It’s a shame the Discussion settings weren’t used more intelligently to give site owners a choice in the matter.

    *Looks for coffee, finds none. That’s a shame*

    I think you totally get it but for others there may be a basic misunderstanding: it’s only the default for new pages where comments are turned off. That’s not considered a big deal because most users turn off comments for pages once the comments start pouring in.

    When this was announced there was much joy and dancing in the streets.

    Comments are now turned off on pages by default

    If you read that post you’ll see that it’s easy in code to reverse that behavior and that plugin does exactly that.

    There are a lot of places to get involved in the decision make process for features. That link that James posted is one but if you peruse the blue welcome box at the top of https://make.wordpress.org/core/ you’ll see some other links too.

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