Allow moving threads into the Plugin/Theme support forums

[dd32]

Currently to move a thread into the Plugin/Theme support forums, a moderator is required to load wp-admin, add the appropriate taxonomies, and then change the forum to 'Plugins' or 'Themes'.

It'd be much easier if there was a move-to-plugin/theme option available in the thread view.

[ilovewpcom]

Hi,

A few weeks ago I have mentioned an issue related to the moving of threads from one forum section into another.

I would hope that users that are subscribed to a forum will be notified by email when a thread is moved into that section.

To better understand, here's what happened:
A user posted a support thread in the General Forums, but the issue was with one of my themes.
The thread was moved into my forum, but I was not notified of it.
So I discovered the support question by accident about 3 weeks later.
This is not good user/author experience.

Please consider sending an email notification to subscribers similarly to how it is done when a thread is first created.

Thank you.

[Clorith]

@ilovewpcom That is an different topic from this one, a general ticket on improving notifications would be better :)

As for this ticket, I agree that moving should be easier, and we can make it much simpler I think.
In the edit topic view, let's add a "Move to plugin or theme", and make it an input field that accepts the URL for the plugin or theme, giving entries such as:

• https://wordpress.org/themes/twentytwentyone/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/

We then get the type (theme or plugin), and the slug, in a copy-pasteable format without needing the one editing to fill out two fields with the right information, reducing the likelihood of human error, and giving hints to the "mover".

[Clorith]

5535.patch​ is my idea for a quick and easy implementation of this. It provides a text field when someone with moderate capabilities, on the global forums, edits a topic. The text field expects a URL to a plugin or theme page on WordPress.org, in the format of wordpress.org/(plugins|themes)/(slug), and uses that to match for, and switch to, the applicable slug.

It also includes an example placeholder URL to help guide those using the field, and a helpful field descriptor detailing it as well.

the theme or plugin relationship will only be updated if the field has a value, and the regex matches. It's slightly WIP in that I've not added any error message to it yet, curious if there should be a check for a valid slug before switching to them, or if the idea behind copy-pasting is enough here as well?

And what kind of error would be helpful if the URL isn't valid and does not match the regex pattern?