Forum Moderation (bbPress)
Where a moderator finds work they were not already looking at. Topics and replies waiting on a decision, in one list.
Before you start
Section titled “Before you start”| Plugin | bbPress — or BuddyBoss Platform with its Forums component on |
| Endpoint group | bbPress |
| Plan | Every plan |
| Needs | The moderate capability — Moderator and Keymaster |
Settings
Section titled “Settings”| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Title, Description | Shown at the top | Empty |
| Queues | Which to offer, in order | Pending, Spam, Trash |
| Restrictions | Which roles see the tab | Everyone |
The queues
Section titled “The queues”| Queue | What is in it |
|---|---|
| Pending | Posted, and waiting to be approved |
| Spam | Marked as spam |
| Trash | Deleted, and still recoverable |
Three, not four. ForumWP has a Reported queue; bbPress has no reporting feature at all, so there is nothing to put in one.
Each tab carries a count, so a moderator can see where the work is without opening all three.
Who sees it
Section titled “Who sees it”Anyone without the moderate capability gets a short notice saying so — never
an empty list. “Nothing to moderate” and “you may not moderate” are different
answers, and showing the first to someone who should be seeing the second is how
a backlog goes unnoticed.
What a moderator can do
Section titled “What a moderator can do”Approve, mark spam or not-spam, trash and restore, all from the row. The buttons drawn on a row are exactly the ones that apply to it in its current state — a published topic offers no Approve, a trashed one offers Restore.
On BuddyBoss Platform there is no Approve or Unapprove: its forums are built on an older bbPress that has no approval step. Everything else works the same.
Tapping a topic opens it in full, where close, reopen, pin and unpin are also available.
Related
Section titled “Related”Working the bbPress pending, spam and trash queues
record → src/assets/media/bbp-forum-mod-queue.mp4