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Unable to Delete, Edit or Close *Some* Topics

During cleanup, I came across topics that I was trying to close and wouldn’t close. This happens both in the front end and back end. In the backend, the message ‘Topic…has been closed successfully’ is displayed; however, the topic remains open. In troubleshooting, I tried to edit the topics. When I update the topic, it just reverts changes. I have found about 40 topics that have this behavior, but other topics close just fine. I am doing a massive cleanup and have about 4800 more topics to review and potentially close, but presume I will run into more as I go along.

Steps I took to troubleshoot further: deactivated all plugins except, bbpress; switched to default WP theme, reset permalink, ran repair tools and turned on debug. The same behavior exists and debug is not throwing any errors.

I looked at underlying records for some of these problematic topics in the database and the post status is published, comment status is closed in wp_posts. Not sure if this information helps, but I also took a look at the wp_postmeta and found that there are ~4 entries for _bbp_status with meta value published on each of these topics and 25+ entries for _sticky_post with meta value 0. I thought the _sticky_post meta was interesting because these topics were not sticky.

I’m using WP 4.9.2 and bbpress 2.5.14

Probably more info than needed —- but I really need to close these topics if anyone can help.