One Click Close Comments

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Release Log

3.0 (2025-04-17)

• Change: Improve accessibility
  • Change: Use a semantic button instead of a span
  • New: Allow comment state buttons to be navigable by keyboard
  • New: Allow keyboard control by having the spacebar toggle comment state when toggle is focused
• Change: Reimplement JavaScript to use vanilla JS and discontinue use of jQuery
• Change: Prevent UI cues indicating comment status might be changeable to users who cannot change them (they never could)
  • Change: Prevent cursor from changing to pointer when comment status cannot be changed
  • Change: Prevent asynchronous JS submission of request to toggle comment status
• Change: Prevent display and use of comment status indicator for post types that don’t support comments
• Change: Improve nonce handling
  • Change: Generate a unique nonce per post rather than a generic nonce
  • Change: Store nonce in ‘data-nonce’ attribute rather than ‘id’
  • Change: Use unused private static class variable ‘nonce_field’ as base for nonce field key and value
• Change: Use result of update to recognize if the comment status didn’t get changed for some reason
• Change: Ensure AJAX response is only ever an integer
• Change: Remove any markup potentially introduced in a string translation
• Fix: Restore changing mouse cursor to a pointer on hover
• Change: Assign additional generic class of ‘comment_state’ to indicator markup
• Change: Reset field_title variable in reset() and use reset() during initialization
• Change: Use update() rather than query() for making SQL update request
• New: Add inline documentation to class variables
• New: Add recommendation for Add Admin CSS plugin for adding the CSS suggested in FAQ entry related to customizing indicator
• New: Add DEVELOPER-DOCS.md and move hooks documentation into it
• Change: Discontinue unnecessary explicit loading of textdomain
• Change: Prevent unwarranted PHPCS complaints
• Change: Tweak some text in the FAQ section, including fixing a typo
• Change: Note compatibility through WP 6.8+
• Change: Update copyright date (2025)
• Change: Note compatibility through PHP 8.3+
• Change: Tweak installation instruction
• Change: Reduce number of ‘Tags’ in readme.txt
• Change: Remove development and testing related files from release packaging
• Unit tests:
  • Fix: Allow tests to run against current versions of WordPress
  • Hardening: Prevent direct web access to bootstrap.php
  • Change: Restructure unit test directories
    • Change: Move bin/ into tests/
    • Change: Move tests/bootstrap.php into tests/phpunit/
    • Change: Move tests/test-one-click-close-comments.php into tests/phpunit/tests/
  • Change: Remove ‘test-‘ prefix from unit test files
  • Change: In bootstrap, store path to plugin file constant
  • Change: In bootstrap, add backcompat for PHPUnit pre-v6.0
  • Change: Rename phpunit.xml to phpunit.xml.dist per best practices
  • New: Add composer.json for PHPUnit Polyfill dependency
  • Change: Explicitly define return type for overridden methods
• New: Add a few more possible TODO items

2.7.1 (2021-04-01)

• New: Add a unit test
• Change: Note compatibility through WP 5.7+
• Change: Update copyright date (2021)

2.7 (2020-08-02)

• This recommended release updates its JavaScript, streamlines markup output, adds unit testing, adds a TODO.md file, updates a few URLs to be HTTPS, notes compatibility through 5.4+, and other minor behind-the-scenes improvements.

Details:

• New: Extract code for determining click character into new get_click_char()
• New: Add unit tests
• New: Add reset() for resetting memoized variables
• New: Add TODO.md and move existing TODO list from top of main plugin file into it (and add items to it)
• Change: Improve output of markup
  • Remove encompassing span only shown for users authorized to toggle comment status
  • Add ‘title’ attribute to primary span to indicate current state
  • Change text to not indicate that comment staus can be toggled when user does not have that capability
• Change: Update JavaScript
  • Change: Migrate use of deprecated .live() to .on()
  • Change: Handle removal of a previously encapsulating span
  • Change: Remove unused code
  • Change: Update code syntax
• Change: Allow class to be defined even when loaded outside the admin
• Change: Return ‘-1’ to Ajax requests that don’t result in the comment status being toggled
• Change: Add $and_exit argument to toggle_comment_status() to prevent exiting in order to facilitate unit testing
• Change: Refactor add_post_column() to be more concise
• Change: Add inline docs for deprecated filter one-click-close-comments-click-char
• Change: Switch to use of strict equality operator instead of simple equality operator
• Change: Note compatibility through WP 5.4+
• Change: Update links to coffee2code.com to be HTTPS

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