Hi Brajesh

Please accept my apologies for the delay in acknowledging this but thank you so much for your time in putting this together.

I haven’t had a chance to test it out yet but certainly as if it’s just what I need and will be very helpful.

Warm regards
Nik

Hi Brajesh

I have all the latest versions installed and have been testing this a bit more. It still doesn’t seem to be working as I would expect as follows –

Ideally I would like users to be able to publish a post without having to select a category, however, as suggested above, I don’t mind setting a “default” if necessary.

Post form settings –
Enable taxonomy: Yes
Enabled taxonomies: Category
Limit to categories: Article or News
Default term: News
Is required: No
Default view: Checkboxes
Allow users to create terms: No

The post form doesn’t actually show the default category as being pre-selected, and when the user submits the post without selecting a category, the post is saved in ALL categories (ie. both Article and News).

Surely if a default term has been set, and the user has made no category choice, the default term should be the only one used for the post?

Note: if “Is required” is set to “yes”, then obviously the user can’t submit the post until they’ve chosen a category but this then rather renders the “default” setting irrelevant 😉

Am I missing something?

With many thanks in advance for any thoughts.
Nik

Hi Brajesh

I really don’t mind. Indeed, I’m happy to do my bit to help things along when you offer such great support yourself 😉

I’ve now tested 1.0.0-RC6 and that all seems to be working as expected, so many thanks for sorting this out so promptly.

I do, however, have a couple of queries as follows –

1. Can you possibly give an example of how to use the filter ‘bblpro_default_post_status_for_user’? There are two scenarios in which I would like to use this to allow users to publish immediately (ie. without the need for approval) as follows –

a) users with the role of ‘editor’ when posting both personal and group posts and
b) group admins when posting in their own group, even if they are not allowed to override submission workflow ie. not allowed to change “Submit Post for Review”

2. I appreciate this one might be tricky but my emails that get sent out when a post is submitted, all refer to the fact that the post will require approval eg. group admin email says “a new post has been received and you need to go and approve it”, user email says “we’ve received your post and will let you know once it has been received”.

Obviously that will be true in most cases, but just wondering if there is any way of filtering the above if the post is being published immediately ie. doesn’t require approval? The ideal would be to have a different email which was sent out based on the post status, but failing that, an email token which could at least display the post status might be useful. Note: I’m now wondering if maybe a shortcode would be the answer eg. show this text if “pending”, show that text if “published”… I certainly don’t expect an immediate answer to this one but if you do happen to have any suggestions at all, they would be much appreciated.

With many thanks as always
Nik

Hi again Brajesh

After extensive testing, I can confirm (almost 100%) that this unfortunately appears to be a BuddyBoss issue, though I must admit, I have given up on trying to figure out why!

To replicate the issue –

New WordPress install
Plugins installed – BuddyBoss Platform, BuddyBlog Pro, BuddyBlog Groups, Events Manager
Running Twenty Twenty theme
One group created with two members ie. Admin plus one basic subscriber
Two Group Post Forms created one for posts and one for events with the workflow setting “On Submission Submit Post for Review” with override enabled
Both post types enabled in Group settings with the relevant tabs etc.

When the subscriber (not admin) goes to create a new event, button shows “Submit Post for Review”
When the subscriber (not admin) goes to create a new post, button shows “Publish”

Summary: when using BuddyBoss and making a group post, for some reason, the default post status for standard WordPress posts, always gets set to “publish” regardless of any other settings. This does not happen for custom post types which seem to respect the logic (at least as I understand it).

I note you have a holiday coming up so understand a reply may take a little longer but will hope to hear from you as soon as you are able since I won’t be able to update the plugin(s) if/until we’ve somehow found a way to resolve this.

With many thanks as always.
Nik

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