In your notes above it states:

“Posts with 3 or more links will be manually approved by our forum moderators.”

In my WordPress site my settings are also to a max of 2.

I created a topic with 3 links but the post did not go to moderation. Is this because I am an admin and the moderation does not apply?

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

probably – suggest you test with users of different capability if you want to be sure

[@ajtruckle Participant 5 years, 1 month ago]

Ok, I have asked a “Participant” and will provide feedback here.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

just set yourself up a test account

so create a user called say ‘myusertest’ and give it a fictitious email account – it has to be in the correct format so say ‘abc@def.com’ and set a password

you can then log on as that user and you’ll get participant access to see.

[@ajtruckle Participant 5 years, 1 month ago]

OK, I am a bit confused.

I create test account and started a topic.

I immediately see that there is no status | type drop-down lists so that is good.

But I put 3 hyperlinks in the topic and hit submit and it went through the system. So why did it do this when we have said comments with over 2 links should flag for moderation?

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

no idea 🙂

[@ajtruckle Participant 5 years, 1 month ago]

:)Side question – do the bbPress authors actively view these forums etc.? It all seems rather quiet. Apart from your grateful efforts. I raised one of those trac tickets:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3266#ticket

[@ajtruckle Participant 5 years, 1 month ago]

Related:

Moderate posts that have 3 or more links

But it does not work.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

I dug into this a bit further

The moderation in bbpress is looking for ‘<href…’ so if you just post links ie

you post this

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/posts-with-3-or-more-links/

not this

<a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/posts-with-3-or-more-links/">some link</a>

then no check is done – it is looking for links not urls

There is some capability in the code via

$reply_content = apply_filters( 'bbp_new_reply_pre_content', $reply_content );

to take out more than 2 links, but there is not an easy way to put 3 urls into moderation

[@ajtruckle Participant 5 years, 1 month ago]

I tried sending a post using a non-admin user, with the TEXT editor and thus 3 hrefobjects and it still simply went through the system. Just thought I mention.

[@ajtruckle Participant 5 years ago]

This can be closed because the 2.6.x improved the moderation functionality.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years ago]

great