Add 'mark as spam' to bulk actions in Topics/Replies admin

[DJPaul]

It'd be very handy from a workflow perspective if bbPress had a "mark as spam" option in the bulk actions dropdown inside the Topics/Replies wp-admin screens.

Currently there are only "edit" and "move to trash" options.

[alexvorn2]

related #1838

[johnjamesjacoby]

Makes sense, and not difficult to do.

[MZAWeb]

Actually, as we're not doing our own WP_List_Table child for our admin lists, but instead hooking into the standard WP_Posts_List_Table, it's not easy to add bulk actions in a non-hacky way. @johnjamesjacoby have you considered moving our tables to WP_List_Table childs?

[MZAWeb]

by "not easy" I meant "impossible". Only way I could find is via jQuery, which is insane.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Replying to MZAWeb:

Actually, as we're not doing our own WP_List_Table child for our admin lists, but instead hooking into the standard WP_Posts_List_Table, it's not easy to add bulk actions in a non-hacky way. @johnjamesjacoby have you considered moving our tables to WP_List_Table childs?

Yes, and it's possible we'll need to do this at some point, to avoid trying to hack these things in.

Moving to 2.5.

[MZAWEb]

I'd love to do that, if no one beats me to it. Will start asap.

[MZAWeb]

Core hardcodes which WP_List_Table child is used in every instance (see function _get_list_table )

Until this is resolved ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18449 doesn't make much sense to do this ticket, because we'll need to do some ugly hacks to make it work.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Thanks for keeping an eye on this. Agree there's little value in doing more work than should be needed.

Also, 2.5 is going to focus on performance improvements, so moving to 2.6.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Bump to 2.7.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Bumping all 2.7 to 2.8 milestone.

[Ipstenu]

Any traction on this? It makes managing large sites like WordPress.org almost impossible.

[Kenshino]

I'm weeping now while trying to clear spam from un-managed forums on rosetta sites

[jmdodd]

First pass at adding bulk spam/unspam functionality to topics and replies in wp-admin.

[netweb]

See also:

• ​#WP16031 / ​wp:changeset:38647
• ​https://make.wordpress.org/core/2016/10/04/custom-bulk-actions/

I've made a couple of tweaks to 2246.diff​ in 2246.2.diff​ the patch, doc tweaks, and only add the filters for WP >= 4.7, ​#WP16031 has been reopened with some changes requested.

Going to commit 2246.2.diff​ and leave this ticket open for further follow up.

[netweb]

In 6101:

General - Administration: Introduce bulk actions to spam and unspam topics and replies in wp-admin

This Friday #yolo changeset comes care of the upcoming WordPress 4.7 release via ​#WP16031 / ​wp:changeset:38647

Props jmdodd.
See #2246.

[netweb]

In 6102:

General - Administration: Add i18n text domain missed in [6101]

See #2246.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Looks like this is in. Anything left to do can reference this, or open new ticket if they are major new bugs.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Assigning all closed & unassigned tickets in the 2.6 milestone to myself.