Hi Brajesh

I was actually rather hoping you might say something along those lines 😉

Although I’ve spent quite a bit of time trying to handle this scenario myself, I’ve been aware that it’s not a perfect solution so if BuddyBlog Pro Groups will soon be able to it “out of the box”, that would be great.

Good luck with the release and I’ll look out for it.

Many thanks as always.
Nik

Hi Brajesh

I’ve been testing things this morning and unfortunately I seem to have run into several issues as follows –

Note: I have switched to the parent theme and disabled all custom code however…

1. It would appear that ALL posts by ALL group members are now published immediately, even though the default post status is set to pending.

2. Despite the above, the notification emails that get sent out to both user and admin are those related to a post that requires approval.

3. I note from your message above that the criteria required for a post to be published immediately is based on whether “group admins can override status in their group settings”. This is not an ideal scenario for my particular use case as I don’t want to offer that particular option to group admins, and ideally the criteria would simply be “is the user group admin of that group” (which on the face of it, seems to make much more logical sense to me since if someone can “approve” posts in a group, surely their own posts shouldn’t require approval 😉 )… however… I’m assuming you must have your own particular reasons for handling things this way so as long as 1 & 2 above can be resolved, I guess I can work with it for now.

With many thanks in advance for any thoughts.
Nik

PS. Just tested a little more and it seems 1. above is only occurring for standard WordPress posts, whereas with my custom post type (events), it would appear to be working as expected ie. admin’s posts get published immediately, other users’ posts remain pending! I’ve checked and double-checked my settings and as far as I can tell, they’re the same for both post types but maybe I missing something?

Hi Brajesh

Thank you so much for getting back to me so promptly.

1. I am using BuddyBlog Pro 1.3.5 and BuddyBlog Groups 1.0.0-RC-5.

2. The workflow for both group post and group event forms is set to “Submit Post for Review”. I have also checked the same is showing in the BuddyPress group.

As mentioned above, there is no custom code running. Sadly the issues are still persisting. I’m not sure what to check next…

3. I want admins to be allowed to publish *without* giving them the ability to control the publish state. From what you say, this isn’t the designed behaviour but possibly the filter you mention will help with this? I’ll investigate further once 1 & 2 are resolved.

Regards
Nik

Thank you again Brajesh.

On a little more investigation, it seems as if the function set_default_post_status line 96 ie.

'publish' === $default_status

… always returns “true” for the posts post type.

I’ll have to dig a little deeper to figure out whether that’s caused by something in the logic or some other setting on my side and will get back to you if I manage to find anything of interest.

Regards
Nik