{"id":97,"date":"2026-07-30T17:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/forum\/2026\/07\/30\/how-we-mark-a-topic-solved\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:02:24","slug":"how-we-mark-a-topic-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/forum\/2026\/07\/30\/how-we-mark-a-topic-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Mark a Topic Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-larger mb-4\">Every topic carries a status badge: In Progress while it is still being worked on, and Solved once an answer has landed. The badge shows everywhere the topic is listed, so the archive tells you at a glance which threads finished.<\/p><p>The author of a topic can set the badge themselves, and moderators set it when a thread has clearly been answered but nobody came back to close it. If you disagree with a badge, say so in the thread. It is easy to change and we would rather it were accurate.<\/p><p>One habit makes the whole archive better: when the fix turns out to be something small and undocumented, write it out in full before marking the topic solved. &quot;Sorted it, thanks&quot; helps nobody six months from now.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The badge beside a topic is a promise to the next person who searches. Here is how it is set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,7,8],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news","tag-guidelines","tag-moderation","tag-solved"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}