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Hi,
Does anyone know why the post_title is blank in the reply ?
If I populate the reply post_title with the title from the topic is it going to give me problems ?

Clive

Hi Robin,
Thank you for replying.
I did find something that was said years ago about not putting the topic title into the reply record, not sure why.
So I create a record in the meta table, which is a custom field in the reply form using the following code and add the topic title as a custom field to the custom message in the Fs Poster plugin I am using to post to social media.

function check_and_populate_top_title_on_edit() {
global $pagenow;

// Check if we are in the post.php page (edit post/reply screen) and in the admin area.
if ($pagenow === ‘post.php’ && is_admin()) {
// Get the post ID from the URL query string.
$post_id = isset($_GET[‘post’]) ? intval($_GET[‘post’]) : 0;

// If we have a valid post ID, proceed.
if ($post_id) {
$post = get_post($post_id);

// Ensure we’re working with a ‘reply’ post type.
if ($post && $post->post_type === ‘reply’) {

// Check if the post title is empty.
if (empty($post->post_title)) {
// Get the parent post ID.
$parent_post_id = $post->post_parent;

// Check if a parent post exists.
if ($parent_post_id) {
// Get the parent post data.
$parent_post = get_post($parent_post_id);

// If the parent post exists and has a title, update the ‘top_title’ custom field.
if ($parent_post && !empty($parent_post->post_title)) {
// Add or update the ‘top_title’ meta field with the parent post’s title.
update_post_meta($post_id, ‘top_title’, $parent_post->post_title);
}
}
}
}
}
}
}

add_action(‘load-post.php’, ‘check_and_populate_top_title_on_edit’);