Hello there,

I just discovered a bug on bbpress (v2.6.9) : when you :

1) trash a reply,
2) then restore it,
3) that reply is definitely trashed instead of being restored

I reproduced this issue with wordpress default theme with no other plugins activated.

Did you noticed that also ?

Best regards

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

On my test site – it goes into being draft

If you look at

dashboard>replies>all replies

you should see it as draft in there – I did an approve to get it back.

Can you test that you get the same.

If you are getting that as well, then I’ll take a look to see what the bug is, as agree it should work on the front end.

[@maksanse Participant 2 years, 10 months ago]

Hello Robin and thank you for your quick answer 🙏
You are right : replies were converted in draft 👍

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

ok I’ll take a look when I get a mo

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

I’ve just taken a look.

bbpress uses the wordpress ‘untrash’ function to restore topics and replies.

That wordpress function includes a note saying

* By default posts that are restored will be assigned a status of 'draft'.
* Prior to WordPress 5.6.0, restored posts were always assigned their original status.

so this was a change in WordPress 5.6

However WordPress helpfully includes a hook we can link to to restore the previous status automatically

add_filter ('wp_untrash_post_status', 'wp_untrash_post_set_previous_status' , 10 , 3) ;

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

[@maksanse Participant 2 years, 10 months ago]

Thank you Robin for the filter ! That works great !
I missed that change after the 5.6.0 version.

Best regards

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 10 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed 🙂

[@deepblue5 Participant 1 year, 11 months ago]

Thanks a lot Robin

i had the same problem

i think you should give your fix to the bbpress dev team as this is an annoying bug

Thanks 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 1 year, 11 months ago]

it has been repported.

There is a fix in

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>bug fixes

and you’ll see the ability to Fix ‘Restore’ on front end

[@deepblue5 Participant 1 year, 11 months ago]

Oh great, thanks Robin 🙂