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Summary

The Unlist modal's textarea used to save an internal note that only moderators could see, even though moderators often want to tell the author what is wrong so they can fix it and resubmit. Now the text is also included in the "pattern unlisted" email sent to the author. The field is renamed to "Message to the pattern author" so it is clear the content will be sent to them.

The message is stored in the _wporg_unlist_reason_detail post meta, which:

  • can only be written by moderators,
  • is exposed in the REST edit context only, so it never shows in the public API,
  • is deleted as soon as the pattern is unlisted, so a later unlisting (e.g. from the list screen or a bulk action) doesn't resend an old message,
  • is skipped by the content validators (control characters, data-wp-* directives), since it only ever goes into a plain-text email.

The modal now waits for the post save to finish and only confirms "The pattern has been unlisted." when it succeeded; on failure it shows an error and stays open so the moderator can retry.

PluginPostStatusInfo and PluginDocumentSettingPanel are now imported from @wordpress/editor (where they live since WordPress 6.6) instead of the deprecated @wordpress/edit-post location. This is a cleanup only: the old imports still work, so it does not change whether the Unlist button shows.

How to test

  1. Open a pattern in the editor and confirm the Unlist button appears in the Status and visibility panel, and the Pattern Details panel still shows.
  2. Click Unlist, pick a reason, and write a message in the textarea (try one that mentions data-wp-interactive).
  3. Submit and confirm the pattern is unlisted, the modal says "The pattern has been unlisted.", and the author receives an email containing both the reason and your message.
  4. Re-publish the pattern, then unlist it from the Patterns list screen. Confirm the email no longer contains the earlier message.
  5. GET /wp/v2/wporg-pattern/<id> without context=edit does not include _wporg_unlist_reason_detail.

Automated coverage: tests/phpunit/class-unlist-message-test.php.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Moderators can include a message to the pattern author when unlisting a pattern. The message is included in the notification email alongside the selected reason and is sent only once.
  • Improvements
    • The unlisting dialog clarifies that the author will be emailed and explains how the message and reason are used.
    • Pattern editing controls remain available across different versions of the WordPress editor.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Errors while saving an unlisting message are now reported instead of showing a success state.

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MaggieCabrera marked this pull request as ready for review June 4, 2026 13:44
Combine the editor-package imports so there is a single import per
package (no-duplicate-imports) and let prettier format them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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/cc @pkevan

Resolve the conflict in notifications.php: keep trunk's removal of the
wporg_unlist_pattern listener and keep the unlisted-detail meta registration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

The unlisting flow accepts a moderator message, saves it in pattern metadata, and appends it to the unlisting reason in the author notification email. The message is consumed after notification preparation and excluded from rendered-content validation. Editor components are imported from @wordpress/editor.

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Unlisting author message

Layer / File(s) Summary
Collect and save the message
public_html/wp-content/plugins/pattern-directory/src/pattern-post-type/details.js, public_html/wp-content/plugins/pattern-directory/src/pattern-post-type/unlist-button/*
The modal describes the message as intended for the author and submits it with the selected reason. The submit handler saves the message in pattern metadata, awaits the save, and reports save errors. Editor components are imported from @wordpress/editor.
Register metadata and prepare the email
public_html/wp-content/plugins/pattern-directory/includes/notifications.php
The metadata is registered as a sanitized string available in the edit REST context, with writes authorized by edit_others_posts. When preparing the notification, the code reads and deletes the message before author lookup. If a message is present, it appends it to the unlisting reason after two newlines.
Exclude the message from content checks and verify the flow
public_html/wp-content/plugins/pattern-directory/includes/pattern-validation.php, public_html/wp-content/plugins/pattern-directory/tests/phpunit/class-unlist-message-test.php
Rendered-content validation excludes the message from control-character and block-directive checks. Tests cover one-time email delivery, write authorization, and omission from the public REST response.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Moderator
  participant UnlistModal
  participant UnlistButton
  participant PatternMeta
  participant Notifications
  participant AuthorEmail
  Moderator->>UnlistModal: enter reason and message
  UnlistModal->>UnlistButton: submit reason and message
  UnlistButton->>PatternMeta: save message metadata
  Notifications->>PatternMeta: read and delete message metadata
  Notifications->>AuthorEmail: append message after unlisting reason
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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2933b

Moderator authorization and restricted public visibility limit exposure. The main design concern is that the message can outlive its intended unlisting operation when notification processing is skipped. No unauthorized disclosure was established, but some access and failure behaviors remain unverified.

Retained concerns

  • Low · architecture · inferred: The new message is stored against the pattern rather than a particular unlisting operation. Its authorization callback does not require an unlisting transition, and cleanup occurs only inside the notification consumer. Non-English translations and unchanged-status updates return before that consumer runs. Consequently, authorized writes can leave the message beyond its intended operation, potentially allowing stale text into a later eligible notification. Normal modal submission bundles status and message, limiting this concern to independent writes or skipped-notification paths; unauthorized disclosure was not demonstrated.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new communication authority is available to holders of the existing moderator capability for patterns they can edit. Each notification targets that pattern's persisted author; the message does not choose an arbitrary destination. No cross-service or infrastructure privilege expansion is established by the inspected flow.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The metadata write callback uses the same moderator capability as moderation-status validation. Sanitization and edit-context schema filtering are declared controls. Whether the deployed REST stack restricts edit-context reads to the intended audience remains unresolved; a write callback alone is not evidence of read authorization.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Give the message explicit ownership by a moderation operation, including cleanup or expiry when notification processing is skipped. If strict single-use or retryable delivery is required, define an atomic consumption and delivery-outcome protocol rather than relying on separate read/delete operations.
  • proposed — Verify anonymous and author edit-context reads on supported WordPress versions, and explicitly document whether authors may read a pending message before notification.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly names the unlist button fix and the addition of reasons to the author email, which cover the main changes.
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- Line 104: Update onSubmit so it returns the savePost promise, then await it
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Thanks Maggie. I merged trunk to fix the conflicts and tested this locally and on the sandbox.

I couldn't reproduce the missing Unlist button on trunk. The old imports still work, so that part isn't the fix. Could you update the PR description so it doesn't say this fixes the missing button?

The email part works, and the author now gets your message. Left comments to sort out before merging.

'type' => 'string',
'description' => 'A message from the moderator, included in the email sent to the author when a pattern is unlisted.',
'single' => true,
'show_in_rest' => true,

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Once the pattern is published again, anyone can read this message from the public API

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Limiting it to the edit context hides it from the public API while the editor can still read and save it

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'show_in_rest' => true,
'show_in_rest' => array( 'schema' => array( 'context' => array( 'edit' ) ) ),

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Fixed in 2933b48: the meta is now show_in_rest => array( 'schema' => array( 'context' => array( 'edit' ) ) ). Covered by test_message_is_not_public.

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// Append the moderator's message to the author, if one was provided.
$detail = get_post_meta( $post->ID, UNLISTED_DETAIL_META, true );

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Nothing clears this message, so if the pattern is re-listed and later unlisted from the list screen or the bulk action, the author gets the old message again.

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Deleting it right after it's read fixes this

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$detail = get_post_meta( $post->ID, UNLISTED_DETAIL_META, true );
$detail = get_post_meta( $post->ID, UNLISTED_DETAIL_META, true );
delete_post_meta( $post->ID, UNLISTED_DETAIL_META );

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Fixed in 2933b48: notify_pattern_unlisted() reads and deletes the meta first thing, so it's cleared even when it bails early (e.g. no author). Covered by test_message_is_emailed_once, which relists and unlists again via wp_update_post.

editPost( {
status: UNLISTED_STATUS,
'wporg-pattern-flag-reason': [ reasonId ],
meta: { _wporg_unlist_reason_detail: details },

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A message that mentions data-wp- fails the save with "Patterns cannot contain interactivity directives", so the pattern stays published

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Leaving _wporg_unlist_reason_detail out of the two $request['meta'] checks in pattern-validation.php would fix it, since this text only goes into the email.

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Fixed in 2933b48: added get_rendered_meta(), which drops _wporg_unlist_reason_detail from $request['meta'] for both the control-character and directive checks. The test unlists with a message mentioning data-wp-interactive.


const submittedText = __(
'The pattern has been unlisted, and your internal note has been saved.',
'The pattern has been unlisted, and the author has been notified by email.',

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This shows before the save finishes. No email goes out for translated patterns or when the author account no longer exists.

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This would be true in every case.

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'The pattern has been unlisted, and the author has been notified by email.',
'The pattern has been unlisted.',

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Fixed in 2933b48: the text is now "The pattern has been unlisted.", and it only shows once the save succeeded (see the CodeRabbit thread).

import UnlistModal from './modal';
import './unlist.scss';

const PluginPostStatusInfo = PluginPostStatusInfoFromEditor || PluginPostStatusInfoFromEditPost;

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wp.editPost.PluginPostStatusInfo still works on WordPress 7.2 with Gutenberg 24, both locally and on the wporg sandbox, so this fallback never kicks in.

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Fixed in 2933b48: imports only from @wordpress/editor now, and the fallback line is gone.

} from '@wordpress/editor';
import { PluginDocumentSettingPanel as PluginDocumentSettingPanelFromEditPost } from '@wordpress/edit-post';

const PluginDocumentSettingPanel = PluginDocumentSettingPanelFromEditor || PluginDocumentSettingPanelFromEditPost;

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Same here, the old import still works, so this fallback never kicks in.

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Fixed in 2933b48: imports only from @wordpress/editor now.

Comment on lines +7 to +15
// `PluginDocumentSettingPanel` moved from `@wordpress/edit-post` to `@wordpress/editor`.
// Import from both and use whichever the running WordPress version provides.
import {
PluginDocumentSettingPanel as PluginDocumentSettingPanelFromEditor,
store as editorStore,
} from '@wordpress/editor';
import { PluginDocumentSettingPanel as PluginDocumentSettingPanelFromEditPost } from '@wordpress/edit-post';

const PluginDocumentSettingPanel = PluginDocumentSettingPanelFromEditor || PluginDocumentSettingPanelFromEditPost;

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Importing only from @wordpress/editor is enough, since production is well past 6.6.

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// `PluginDocumentSettingPanel` moved from `@wordpress/edit-post` to `@wordpress/editor`.
// Import from both and use whichever the running WordPress version provides.
import {
PluginDocumentSettingPanel as PluginDocumentSettingPanelFromEditor,
store as editorStore,
} from '@wordpress/editor';
import { PluginDocumentSettingPanel as PluginDocumentSettingPanelFromEditPost } from '@wordpress/edit-post';
const PluginDocumentSettingPanel = PluginDocumentSettingPanelFromEditor || PluginDocumentSettingPanelFromEditPost;
import { PluginDocumentSettingPanel, store as editorStore } from '@wordpress/editor';

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// `PluginPostStatusInfo` moved from `@wordpress/edit-post` to `@wordpress/editor`.
// Import from both and use whichever the running WordPress version provides.
import { PluginPostStatusInfo as PluginPostStatusInfoFromEditor, store as editorStore } from '@wordpress/editor';
import { PluginPostStatusInfo as PluginPostStatusInfoFromEditPost } from '@wordpress/edit-post';

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Same here, importing only from @wordpress/editor is enough.

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// `PluginPostStatusInfo` moved from `@wordpress/edit-post` to `@wordpress/editor`.
// Import from both and use whichever the running WordPress version provides.
import { PluginPostStatusInfo as PluginPostStatusInfoFromEditor, store as editorStore } from '@wordpress/editor';
import { PluginPostStatusInfo as PluginPostStatusInfoFromEditPost } from '@wordpress/edit-post';
import { PluginPostStatusInfo, store as editorStore } from '@wordpress/editor';

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const PluginPostStatusInfo = PluginPostStatusInfoFromEditor || PluginPostStatusInfoFromEditPost;

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This line can go once the import above changes.

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const PluginPostStatusInfo = PluginPostStatusInfoFromEditor || PluginPostStatusInfoFromEditPost;

- Only moderators can write the message, and it is exposed in the REST
  edit context only, so the public API never shows it.
- Consume the message when the pattern is unlisted, so a later unlisting
  (list screen, bulk action) doesn't resend it.
- Leave the message out of the meta control-character and directive
  checks, since it only goes into a plain-text email.
- Wait for the post save and check `didPostSaveRequestFail()` before
  confirming; keep the modal retryable on failure. The confirmation no
  longer claims an email was sent.
- Import the slot fills from `@wordpress/editor` only; the old location
  still works, so the fallback was never used.
- Add tests for the message flow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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