To the moderators

Talk all you like. ?? In fact this link is a great place to start.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/view/no-replies

Topics are automatically closed after 1 year from the original post as you said because the code and problem are almost certainly not applicable anymore. Once a topic is closed for that reason it can’t be opened again.

That topic is 2 years old. You’d be reviving a topic that the original poster either found a solution or moved on. The code has changed tremendously in 2 years.

When a moderator does manually close a topic it’s for good cause. That usually happens due to abuse or spam.

i have a simpler solution to this problem, but i cant even reply to this topic, so many users reading this topic would never know the right solution

If you create a new thread with an informative title and put the problem and solution in the thread’s body, why wouldn’t anyone find that? People searching for the solution won’t give up at one thread. Many people are finding this topic because the (good) answer’s not out there, so put it out there.

Hi

I understand your points of view

But in many cases, whatever the subject (here is WordPress, but could be anything else) some problems remain the same

This problem is one good example, i has not changed in two years

Thats what i did, i opened a new thread with an informative title but would have been so easier to post the solution on the original thread

On our developpers board, we tell the moderators to leave topics open as even if cms, codes etc can change, some problems and some solutions remain the same, year after year, and it happens very often that some devs find a better solution to a problem one year, two years after, or improve a previous code, and it is so easier to follow the improvement on a very same topic, and not on various topics

To my point, it’s a problem on wordpress forum to be constantly reading several topics about the same problem, all closed… so much time wasted

You know what : each day, we find solutions posted 3-4 years ago to current problems, and on other dev forums, we can reply to those topics, this is very interesting

Just my 2 cents on this, such a long time i wanted to share this but of course i understand your point of view

Have a good day

I still think you’d have to make a large assumption on what the issue is in an old thread to just give an answer straight away. You’d at least need to explore whether the person is experiencing the same issue, under the same environment (versions matter). It’s like those people who post to say “me too” on a thread, when really we know there’s no way they’d just be able to tell they’re having the same issue just because they’ve spotted the same symptom.