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Update Block: Latest Comments #13931
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Moved over from #1792.
Like Calendar and Archive, I looked at what a more dynamic Recent Comments block could include.
I focused on exploring the “what if’s” — what if you could approve pending comments in the Recent Comments block? What if you could reply to them?
Does this make sense? Should we try it out?
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karmatosed commentedon Feb 18, 2019
I love this idea. On one hand, it sits on the line whether it is an actual plugin/extending. On other, I love the idea that blocks become more dynamic.
afercia commentedon Feb 22, 2019
Quickly discussed during today's accessibility bug-scrub and, besides the technical challenge (as far as I can tell this block is rendered server side, not sure it can be made dynamic) we have concerns about the overall proposal.
In terms of interaction, we don’t think the post content is the place to manage comments.
Also, with regards to approving comments, worth considering the widget-block by default displays only approved comments. That's its main purpose, as it's very unlikely authors want to display pending comments on the front end.
Same applies to replying: not sure the post content is the right place for a complex interaction that should display an additional form with additional controls etc. That would be an unexpected interaction, especially for users with accessibility needs.
mapk commentedon Jun 4, 2019
In the spirit of everything is a block, I really like this idea. I see it working in the context of block templates which is yet to come in the near future.
Can we create a
futurelabel for this?paaljoachim commentedon Mar 10, 2020
A Latest Comments Block would be natural to include in a Query Block used in Full Site Editing.
It would likely not be included in the content of a page or post.
paaljoachim commentedon Aug 5, 2020
We discussed this during the Gutenberg Design Triage, and agreed that this would be a part of Full Site Editing.
We need to circle around to this issue again sometime in the future.
youknowriad commentedon Aug 15, 2023
I was checking old issues and came through this one now that we have FSE. Personally, I don't think like interacting with comments (managing them) in the editor is a good idea. Maybe in the frontend if you're an admin or things like that but I'm just tempted to just close this issue personally.
karmatosed commentedon May 7, 2025
I also would say that interacting with comments in hindsight like this probably isn't the best approach with the direction site editing has gone. That in mind, I would recommend to close this out for now and consider if it ever is wanted to come back to it can be, closing doesn't mean we can't always iterate later. Thank you everyone for the work on this and perhaps some of the learnings can go to how collaborative editing is implemented even.