Is there any workaround to let topic starters reopen their own closed topics?

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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 request topics, but as far as I can tell, this feature isn’t available by default. Is there any possible workaround, perhaps with plugins, permissions tweaks that would make this possible? Alternatively, are there existing third-party solutions or recommended approaches for this use case?

Thanks for any advice or suggestions!

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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 around a bit, I found this plugin that might suit your needs:

But note that there are some problems with it.

  1. Maybe a Theme Component too? Let me take a look. ↩︎