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Came across an unusual problem on a site where we are using the forums, a spammy post was deleted for obvious reasons but it still showed up in a panel on the home page where we were using the ‘exp:forum:topic_titles’ tag. On investigating the cause I found that a topic still existed in the database for this entry, so despite the Admin deleting the offending post the topic still existed and as such the spammy title still appeared in the panel using the ‘exp:forum:topic_titles’ tag.

Perhaps the post deletion routine needs to be updated to also delete the topic if there are no longer any associated posts?

Sounds like a good Feature Request. Or I might even consider it a bug.

I’d consider it a bug. 😊

Have you tried the same thing in EE2.x? I’ll be happy to try, but just was wondering.

Sorry, I don’t have a copy of the Discussion Forum module for EE2. Could you try and let me know the outcome? 😊

Nathan,

so despite the Admin deleting the offending post the topic still existed

Can I just confirm here. The admin deleted the post and not the actual topic.You would need to delete the topic for it to be removed from the database. Just removing a post other than initial from the topic will not delete the topic. Both are separate deletions.

Removing the initial post from a topic will delete the whole topic and remove it from the database. I can confirm this in my own installed of EE1.x

That’s odd… it seems that my client deleted the post but the topic remained despite there being no further associated posts. I’ll try and reproduce again and post back here with my results. 😊

Sounds good. We’ll be here 😊