[egroleau]

I’m trying to modify the author ID of bbPress topics/replies automatically on submit.

I’ve tried a few different things but haven’t been able to get it working yet. Any suggestions?

if(!function_exists(‘user_to_anonymous’)){
function user_to_anonymous($comment_data){
$comment_data[‘post_author_id’] = 8;
$comment_data[‘post_author’] = ‘Robert’;
return $comment_data; }
add_filter(‘preprocess_comment’,’user_to_anonymous’); }

More background info:

End goal will be to attribute posts to an ‘Anonymous’ user ID so users can to post sensitive content to a group without being identified. Similar to a private post but making their name private, not the post.

(I’m running WP 4.4.2, bbPress 2.5.8, BuddyPress 2.4.3)

Thanks for your help!

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
If this is the standard wordpress function (never used this function before), then you cannot have a ‘post_author_id’, should be ‘user_ID’ and the ‘post_author’ should be ‘comment_author’ …
See https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/preprocess_comment

But this is for comments, not for replies …

Pascal.

[egroleau]

Many thanks Pascal, post_author did the trick!