Automattic / Automattic/jetpack
Comments: allow gating only to paid members or free subscribers
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- PHP
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Description
To keep commenting more spam free, and within blog's reader community, a publisher might want to limit the discussions only to paid members or Newsletter subscribers.
Example from a competitor:
Currently, commenting on paid posts is limited to paid members, and open posts depending on WordPress settings (comments open, closed, for signed up users only).
#### Internal references
Team 51 discussion:
- p9MPsk-3Zr-p2/#comment-27309
- 26-gh-a8cteam51/public
Slack convos:
- p1686814175340449-slack-C01B6KEJ5GE
- p1730912998442399-slack-C052XEUUBL4
This might also be tangentially related (or need updating if we change how it’s working now):
- https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/pull/75930
Contributor guide
Research direction
No files, tests, or code entry points are named. Start by tracing the existing paid-post and WordPress comment-settings behavior, then clarify the desired subscriber and paid-member states and define tests for each commenting access option.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php, wordpress
- Domain
- authorization, backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100