Bug - prevents attaching media to draft items

[shawfactor]

Team,

I have identified a bug with BBpress

Nemly when it is activated only items with a publish post status appear when you try to attach an attachment without a parent using the attach functionality in upload.php. This means that you cannot attach media items to draft and pending posts/pages etc

This occurs with wordpress 6.6 and can be reproduced by installing BBpress as the only plugin on a fresh install and uploading standalone attachment then trying to attach it to an existing post or page which does not have a publish status.

[shawfactor]

I have done some further investigation.

The bug is created by line 169 of actions.php, namely:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility', 4 );

The function bbp_pre_get_posts_normalize_forum_visibility needs to be refined so that it does not effect this functionality (and potentially other places as well)

Pete

[SirLouen]

Reproduction Report

This report validates that the issue can be reproduced.

Environment

• OS: Windows 11
• Web Stack: WP-Env 10.8
• WordPress: 6.8-alpha-59336
• Browser: Chrome 130.0.6723.92
• Theme: Twenty Ten
• Active Plugins:
  • bbPress 2.7.0-alpha-2
  • Query Monitor 3.16.4

Steps

No plugins activated

1. Create a Draft Post
2. Add New Media File
3. Set List Mode in Media Library
4. Select Attach
5. We can observe that our draft post appears in the list

Activating bbPress

1. Repeat previous steps 1-4
2. The draft post is not there anymore.

Actual Results

• ✅ Error condition occurs (reproduced).

Trac Issue:
​https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3609