Notifying Topic Creator of Replies

  • Resolved George Sexton

    (@gsexton)


    7 years, 2 months ago

    I’m using BBPress 2.5.12 with BBPress Notify (NoSpam) 1.15.3 on WordPress 4.7.2.

    When a user creates a topic, and an administrator creates a reply, I would like the topic creator to receive an Email notifying them of the reply to the topic they created. I want this to ALWAYS happen. I’ve checked all of the options for Reply Recipent Roles in your plugin’s settings page.

    When an administrator creates a reply, the topic creator is not getting an Email. I’ve checked my server’s apache error logs, and there is no information there. I’ve verified by looking at my server’s email logs that it’s not receiving a message.

    As an administrator, I am receiving EMails when the topic is created.

    I’ve looked through the FAQ, and previous support threads and wasn’t able to find any information that pointed me in the right direction.

    Can you give me any ideas on how I can make this work?

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  • Thread Starter George Sexton

    (@gsexton)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    I’ve been continuing to dig into this. It looks like my issue is that I’m not requiring people to register, but accepting posts as a guest. Is that accurate?

    Plugin Author useStrict

    (@usestrict)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    Hi George,

    It depends on how you’re using the plugin. There are 2 main features – notifying by role and overriding the bbpress core subscriptions.

    Notifications by role requires that users have one, and for that, they have to be registered.

    Using the bbpress core subscriptions shows an email field for guests, but doesn’t show the subscription link, so they can’t subscribe.

    You can try to add guest authors to the recipient list via a filter, but first you’ll need to figure out how guest emails and post relationships are stored in bbpress. I haven’t worked with guests turned on so I’d have to figure it out myself (and can’t right now).

    The filters you’d need to hook into are bbpress_topic_notify_recipients and bbpress_reply_notify_recipients.

    Cheers,
    Vinny

    Thread Starter George Sexton

    (@gsexton)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    The way bbpress handles guest emails is pretty straightforward. Take the original post ID, and look in wp_postmeta for that post id, and a key of _bbp_anonymous_email.

    I’ll take a look at how hard it would be to write a filter. I write plugins, but I’ve pretty much stayed in Widgets and Short codes and never touched posts.

    Thread Starter George Sexton

    (@gsexton)

    7 years, 2 months ago

    I’m sorry, I’m single-focused. Thanks for your help.

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