Testers Wanted: Topic Approval

#1 · January 5, 2019, 7:21 pm

Quote from Asgaros on January 5, 2019, 7:21 pm
Hello everyone,

the upcoming version 1.13 of Asgaros Forum will come with a new functionality: Topic Approval. The implementation of this feature required dozens of changes in the core of the plugin so there is a high risk for potential bugs. I am looking for testers who want to play around with the latest development-version to ensure that the upcoming release will be as stable as possible.

Some key-points of the new approval-functionality:

Adds a new option to forums to enable/disable the approval-functionality

The approval-functionality is only available for new topics, not for posts

It is not possible to unapprove a topic after approval

If the approval-functionality is enabled, new topics will be unapproved after creation

Topics from moderators/administrators dont need approval

The site-owner gets a mail-notification when there is a new unapproved topic

Adds an option to define from which users topic-approval is needed (guests and/or normal users)

Unapproved topics dont appear in the normal topic-list or other areas (widgets, notifications, last-post, activity, unread, etc)

Access to unapproved topics is not possible for non-moderators via URL-manipulation

All topics will get approved inside a forum when the approval-option will be disabled

Nobody can answer, interact or moderate in unapproved topics

Subscribers and mentioned-users only get notified after the topic got approved

If a topic needs approval the topic-creator will get notified and redirected back to the overview after topic-creation

Moderators/Administrators see a notification in the overview when there are unapproved topics

There is a frontend-view available from which moderators/administrators can approve topics

Its not possible to subscribe to unapproved topics

Users who try to access an unapproved topic will get redirect back to the overview

Moderators can only see and approve topics which are accessible for them

The approval-functionality also works with the shortcode-parameter for categories

If you are interested in testing the latest-development version you can download it here.

Hint: This development-version should be relatively stable and contains other improvements of the upcoming update as well. You can find more information about them inside the readme.txt-file.

I am looking forward for your feedback! 🙂

Thank you,

Thomas

Hello everyone,

the upcoming version 1.13 of Asgaros Forum will come with a new functionality: Topic Approval. The implementation of this feature required dozens of changes in the core of the plugin so there is a high risk for potential bugs. I am looking for testers who want to play around with the latest development-version to ensure that the upcoming release will be as stable as possible.

Some key-points of the new approval-functionality:

Adds a new option to forums to enable/disable the approval-functionality
The approval-functionality is only available for new topics, not for posts
It is not possible to unapprove a topic after approval
If the approval-functionality is enabled, new topics will be unapproved after creation
Topics from moderators/administrators dont need approval
The site-owner gets a mail-notification when there is a new unapproved topic
Adds an option to define from which users topic-approval is needed (guests and/or normal users)
Unapproved topics dont appear in the normal topic-list or other areas (widgets, notifications, last-post, activity, unread, etc)
Access to unapproved topics is not possible for non-moderators via URL-manipulation
All topics will get approved inside a forum when the approval-option will be disabled
Nobody can answer, interact or moderate in unapproved topics
Subscribers and mentioned-users only get notified after the topic got approved
If a topic needs approval the topic-creator will get notified and redirected back to the overview after topic-creation
Moderators/Administrators see a notification in the overview when there are unapproved topics
There is a frontend-view available from which moderators/administrators can approve topics
Its not possible to subscribe to unapproved topics
Users who try to access an unapproved topic will get redirect back to the overview
Moderators can only see and approve topics which are accessible for them
The approval-functionality also works with the shortcode-parameter for categories

If you are interested in testing the latest-development version you can download it here.

Hint: This development-version should be relatively stable and contains other improvements of the upcoming update as well. You can find more information about them inside the readme.txt-file.

I am looking forward for your feedback! 🙂

Thank you,

Thomas

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#2 · January 7, 2019, 12:14 pm

war leider nichts.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class AsgarosForum in /www/htdocs/w01846ed/zen-reiki.de/wp-content/plugins/asgaros-forum-5100a805e640b64609269456621a3a15fb70bf5a/includes/forum.php on line 5

Hätte dir gern geholfen.

Sylvi

#3 · January 7, 2019, 4:30 pm

Hallo @springer

Ja, dieser Fehler tritt auf, weil das Plugin zweimal auf deiner Seite vorhanden ist. Die alten Dateien müsstest du vorher mit deinem FTP-Programm entfernen (nicht über den Admin-Bereich deinstallieren).

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#4 · January 7, 2019, 4:42 pm

ok, habe ich gemacht. Man musste aber beide Verzeichnisse löschen, die zweite hatte auch ein Verzeichnis angelegt. Also die Installation lief jetzt durch und auf den ersten Blick schaut es normal aus.

Worauf sollen wir nun achten in der Folgezeit?

Sylvia

#5 · January 7, 2019, 7:10 pm

@springer Im Endeffekt das Forum ganz normal weiter benutzen und mir hier eine Nachricht hinterlassen, falls irgendwas plötzlich nicht mehr funktioniert. 🙂

Das Hauptproblem bei solch umfangreichen Änderungen ist meißtens, dass man irgendwelche Kleinigkeiten an bestehenden Komponenten vergisst bzw übersieht.

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#6 · January 13, 2019, 6:33 am

Hi @asgaros, I have installed the latest version on a clean install of WordPress. So far, no issues in older functions. However, it seems I cannot get the approval feature to work. For proper testing, I applied the same settings as on our production forum.

In my test, I have three users on the forum:

wouteradmin (me, full admin)
Jan de Vries (normal user)
Piet van Tol (normal user)

I have create a main forum (closed), under which I have a subforum (open). On the production site, we have a lot of sub-forums. Here I settled for just one. In both main and sub topics must be approved.

I have three browsers open so I can be logged in with all accounts.

Jan de Vries posts a new topic. wouteradmin does NOT get an email to approve. Piet van Tol can see and comment in the new topic.

I created a second forum with the checkbox ‘approval’ NOT checked, just to be sure. There the same happens: Jan can just post a new topic and wouteradmin does not get the email to approve.

Am I doing something wrong? And/or do you need more information on my installation? Of course, I can give you a full admin account on this testsite.

Thanks, Wouter

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#7 · January 13, 2019, 11:11 am

Hello @wouterbruijning

Thank you for testing the new approval-functionality for topics.

By default the topic-approval functionality is only active for guests. If topics from normal users also require approval, you have to go to Forum -> Settings -> General and change the option “Approval needed for new topics from:” to “Guests & Normal Users”.

Another hint: In closed forums only moderators and administrators can create new topics. Topics of moderators and administrators are approved automatically anyway, so there is no need to activate the approval-function in a closed forum.

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#8 · January 15, 2019, 3:12 pm

Thanks @asgaros. I think I’ll stick in my testing to ‘my’ situation, which is that only registered users can user the forum. We do not allow guests… Still, my test setup may lead to some findings 😉

#9 · January 15, 2019, 5:53 pm

Hello @wouterbruijning

Topic Approval can also be activated for normal registered users as described before. The new functionality is also already included in the v1.13 update which I released today. This version was running in this forum for a while and it seemed to be stable. 🙂

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