Hello, I understand that currently, only moderators, admins, or users with the Leader (TL4) trust level can reopen closed topics. For my forum, I would like to allow the original topic starter to reopen their topics after they’ve been closed. I already checked the documentation and some feature re…

You’re right that there isn’t such a feature in core. A workaround is to flag the topic to let the staff know, but that may take a while if the staff aren’t online all the time. Another workaround is to use Category Moderators. A plugin will likely be able to do the trick here. [1] After digging a…

The Topic OP Moderation Plugin looks like a pretty full solution, and it’s hard to guess whether that last reported error will happen to anyone else. If you try it out, please share your experience in that topic. ▶ (EDIT: irrelevant references)

Funnily enough, almost all (if not all) of those requests are pertaining to the ability of closing, not reopening. This seems like one of the first about reopening.

I would also find it useful if the topic starter could edit their own first post even if the topic is locked. I really would prefer to not have to use a plugin for the functionality.

Doh! :flushed_face: I got trigger-happy and related this question to my notes on users closing topics. Amending my reply.

[immagine] NateDhaliwal: flag the topic That would only work once; I already had this problem with a wrong moderation decision. You can’t flag the same contribution multiple times.

Esiste una soluzione alternativa per permettere agli autori dei topic di riaprire i propri topic chiusi?

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sb56637 27 Novembre 2025, 6:26am 5

Troverebbe utile anche se l’autore del topic potesse modificare il proprio primo post anche se il topic è bloccato.

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The topic creator should be able to close it Feature	2	519	Novembre 5, 2020

Esiste una soluzione alternativa per permettere agli autori dei topic di riaprire i propri topic chiusi?

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