Reply count off by one after deleting a reply

Jamal Reed Jamal Reed 3 weeks ago Resolved

Steps to reproduce: create a topic with three replies, delete one. The space listing still shows three replies on the topic.

It corrects itself after running wp jetonomy recount, so it looks like the denormalized counter isn't decremented on delete. WordPress 6.9, single site.

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Following this thread closely. We are about to face the exact same decision and the replies here are gold.

Following this thread closely. We are about to face the exact same decision and the replies here are gold.

For what it is worth, the same approach works with the PMPro adapter — the membership side is identical from here.

For what it is worth, the same approach works with the PMPro adapter — the membership side is identical from here.

This matches my experience exactly. The hard part is staying consistent once the initial novelty wears off.

This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.

This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

We ran into the same situation last quarter. What worked for us was starting small and only adding complexity when a real need showed up.

The importer preserves original dates and maps forums to spaces. Always run with --dry-run first to preview counts, take a database backup, then run the real import. It batches large datasets so timeouts are not a concern.

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.