Hi there, I have an issue I just cannot get working and I really am not sure why. Firstly I have 3 moderators on my bbpress forums and I want them to get a notification when a new topic is posted of course. I assumed this would be automatic but I have realized that it is not. So I took at look at this thread here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/moderation-and-email-notifications/ and notice that plugins may be required here.

So I installed this plugin: bbPress Moderation but this just sets all posts to pending which is not what I want and also only notifies me and not my moderators which is a little but pointless of course. So then I tried this plugin bbPress Notify and this does not seem to have any notifications for the bbpress user roles. For example it lists that notifications can be sent to admins, editors, authors subscribers and contributors but none of the bbpress specific roles which again is not ideal and little bit pointless.

So I guess my question is how do the moderators only get notifications of new topics posted? Also is there a way to assign a moderator specifically to a single forum and not the entire bbpress forum set so to speak? Maybe I am missing something obvious here as I say because I am new to this. Apologies if I am. Any help would be much appreciated.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 6 months ago]

So I guess my question is how do the moderators only get notifications of new topics posted?

Use this.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify-nospam/

Also is there a way to assign a moderator specifically to a single forum and not the entire bbpress forum set so to speak?

Not Yet. It has gained more attention in the last two years.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/459

[@allmyhoney Participant 9 years, 6 months ago]

@robkk, great appreciate that. The plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-notify-nospam/ is much better and does exactly what I was after. It actually caught me out for a few days that moderators were not receiving anything. Very strange that feature would not be part of the core plugin as there is little point for a moderator if they are not being notified of topics and replies and so on.

I think having a moderator per forum is a smart way to set things up. Again its a shame this feature has been requested over 2 years now. I will keep an eye on it and hopefully with a little luck it arrives soon. Thanks again for your help.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 6 months ago]

Very strange that feature would not be part of the core plugin as there is little point for a moderator if they are not being notified of topics and replies and so on.

I think you can just tell the moderators to subscribe to certain forums too.

And no problem.