[S.G.]

<p data-pm-slice=”1 1 []”>Noted by one of our faculty users/Followed up by Chris Stein:

When you create a topic and set the status to pending you can not edit the topic.</p>
It seems that if you make a status of Pending, the link to the Topic doesn’t include the title of the topic which is why it isn’t going to the right thing. For example this is a non-working (just for illustration) link to what an Open Topic would look like, with the topic title at the end of the URL:

https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/groups/groupname/forum/topic/compensation/

And here is the (non-working) link to a topic that is pending. The title of the topic is not included.

https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/groups/groupname/forum/topic/

I don’t know if this is as expected and people are supposed to go into the dashboard to manage? That may be. But the problem is that on the OpenLab the bbPress Forum Dashboard is only accessible to super admins and is tied to the main Openlab site.

[Ray]

I can confirm this bug. It’s a problem with the BuddyPress integration with the bbPress forums plugin.

For now, I would recommend that you do not use the “Pending” status option.

I’ll see if I can code a workaround, but I’ll be posting a bug report to bbPress Trac. Will update this thread once I find out more.

[Ray]

I’ve posted the bug report to bbPress here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3430

Syelle, if you have access to your server, you can add the following snippet to wp-content/mu-plugins/ or wherever else you might store custom code as a temporary workaround:

// Allow pending group topics to be viewed.
add_action( 'bbp_before_group_forum_display', function() {
	if ( 'topic' !== bp_action_variable() ) {
		return;
	}

	add_filter( 'bbp_before_has_topics_parse_args', function( $retval ) {
		if ( 0 !== strpos( $retval['name'], 'pending-' ) ) {
			return $retval;
		}

		// Sanity check! Ensure that we have a post ID.
		$id = substr( $retval['name'], 8 );
		if ( ! is_numeric( $id ) ) {
			return $retval;
		}

		// Sanity check 2: Ensure post is pending and user can edit post.
		$topic = get_post( $id );
		if ( 'pending' !== get_post_status( $topic ) && ! current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) ) {
			return $retval;
		}

		unset( $retval['name'] );
		$retval['p'] = $topic->ID;

		return $retval;
	} );
} );

// Fix pending (and spam) group topic permalinks.
add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_permalink', function( $retval, $topic_id ) {
	$topic = get_post( $topic_id );
	if ( 'topic' !== $topic->post_type ) {
		return $retval;
	}

	if ( 'pending' !== get_post_status( $topic ) && 'spam' !== get_post_status( $topic ) ) {
		return $retval;
	}

	if ( ! bp_is_group() ) {
		return $retval;
	}

	// Add 'pending-{$topic_id}' as slug for pending topics.
	if ( 'pending' === get_post_status( $topic ) ) {
		$retval .= sprintf( 'pending-%d', $topic_id );
	}

	return bbp_add_view_all( trailingslashit( $retval ), true );
}, 20, 2 );

// Fix redirect when posting a new pending group topic.
add_filter( 'bbp_new_topic_redirect_to', function( $retval, $redirect, $topic_id ) {
	if ( ! bp_is_group() ) {
		return $retval;
	}

	$topic      = bbp_get_topic( $topic_id );
	$slug       = trailingslashit( $topic->post_name );
	$topic_hash = '#post-' . $topic_id;

	// Pending status
	if ( bbp_get_pending_status_id() === get_post_status( $topic_id ) ) {
		$slug = bbp_add_view_all( sprintf( 'pending-%d', $topic_id ), true );
	}

	return trailingslashit( bp_get_group_permalink( groups_get_current_group() ) ) . 'forum/topic/' . $slug . $topic_hash;
}, 20, 3 );

[S.G.]

Thanks, Ray! I’ll let Chris know.

[Ray]

Hi Syelle,

We’re going to be including a fix for this in the next maintenance release for CBOX. We’re aiming for early August for the next release.

See https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/issues/358 for all the forum fixes that will be included.

[S.G.]

Thanks for the update!

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