[ljmac]

Hello,

Can somebody give me a simple function to update bbpress topics when a reply to it is posted? i.e. The equivalent of hitting the update button on the topic when a reply is posted to it.

[Robin W]

sorry, can you explain further.

There is no ‘update’ button on a topic unless this is lost in translation, there is edit and submit.

can you detail a series of steps and what you want to happen?

[ljmac]

Okay, I mean the submit button. I just want the topic to be updated (as if I was hitting the submit button) when a reply is posted, that’s all.

[Robin W]

sorry, still need more.

Do you mean that you don’t want anyone to have replies, but instead replies by anyone to update topic content and not leave a reply ?

[ljmac]

I do not want the standard behaviour to be modified in any way, except that the topic itself be updated when a reply is posted to it. Nothing will look any different to standard bbpress behaviour as far as the user is concerned – I just want to simulate hitting the submit button on the topic when a reply is posted, nothing more.

[Robin W]

sorry, I am trying to help you, but am still unclear what it is you want.

Can you define what you mean by ‘updated’??

[ljmac]

Like I said, as if I was hitting the submit button on the topic. There won’t actually be anything new within the topic itself, I just want it to be updated, as if it was saved but without any actual changes in the topic itself. I simply want a reply to the topic to trigger a save within the topic itself. I think you’re thinking I must be wanting something more complicated, but it really is that simple.

[Robin W]

ok, I now understand what you want.

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

add_action ('bbp_new_reply_post_extras' , 'rew_update_topic') ;
add_action ('bbp_edit_reply_post_extras' , 'rew_update_topic') ;

function rew_update_topic ($reply_id) {
	$topic_id = bbp_get_reply_topic_id( $reply_id );
	$topic_data = apply_filters( 'rew_update_topic', array(
		'ID'           => $topic_id,
	) );

$topic_id = wp_update_post( $topic_data );
}

[ljmac]

Thank you very much!