[@martyn-chamberlin Participant 11 years, 8 months ago]

Weird. Problem still persisting when I just now deactivated all plugins and activated Twenty Ten theme.

Now here are some interesting things though:

1. When viewing http://thewritepractice.com/topic/test/ as admin, the Edit link is there in the box. When viewing it as the author of it however, not seeing Edit.
2. I’ve set Edit in forum settings to 99999 minutes so that’s not the problem.
3. Also, when logged in as author of the topic, I can load http://thewritepractice.com/topic/test/edit/ just fine and edit the topic. So it does recognize me as the author on the edit screen, but somehow not on the actual “view topic” screen.

Because of this last observation, I conjecture that we must be using different logic for “is the current user the author of this topic” on the View versus on the Edit screen.

Really appreciate your help on this.