Is there a reason that the title of the topic does not automatically get carried over to the replies record, is there a way to force it.
I am trying to post topics and replies to social media but when it is a reply the title of the topic is not there which makes the post without context.

Clive

[@clivesmith Participant 2 months, 2 weeks ago]

Hi,
Still trying to sort this, When I create a new reply is there a way to create a custom field of the topic title?
I see there are lots of custom fields but not the topic title.

Clive

[@clivesmith Participant 2 months, 2 weeks ago]

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

[@robin-w Moderator 2 months, 2 weeks ago]

sorry, been working on another project.

If you fill in the title in the admin of a reply, as far as I know it will cause no issues, I’ve not seen any code that uses this field. I cannot be absolute, but best I can say.

[@clivesmith Participant 2 months, 2 weeks ago]

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');

[@robin-w Moderator 2 months, 2 weeks ago]

that looks fine as a solution

[@clivesmith Participant 2 months, 2 weeks ago]

Thanks Robin,
Regards
Clive