XF 2.3 Best way to allow edit of original post but not replies?

[Stuart Wright]

For our classified advert threads, the advertisers need to be able to edit their ads - I.e. the first post - but people replying should not be able to edit their posts because then they could change their offers and gazzump others.
There is no ability to set permissions to achieve this in core Xenforo.

Obviously, this will require an addon.

How would you achieve this?
The current permission logic labels all posts in a thread as posts and does not differentiate between the first post and replies.
So would you, for example, insert a new permission above Edit own post to read
Edit own first post in thread
And rename Edit own post to
Edit own reply
?

 

[benFF]

I use this

[OzzModz] First Post Edit Time Limit

Feb 9, 2018

Allow different edit time limits for the first post in a thread

• Painbaker
• Add-ons [2.x]

 

[Stuart Wright]

I use this

[OzzModz] First Post Edit Time Limit

Feb 9, 2018

Allow different edit time limits for the first post in a thread

• Painbaker
• Add-ons [2.x]

That’s doing something different to what I need because permission to edit own post has to be set to yes.
So thanks for the reply, but that’s not going to work.

 

[benFF]

I see.

You can set the default edit limit to 1 minute and then first post limit to unlimited (for just this forum) as a workaround?

 

[Stuart Wright]

I see.

You can set the default edit limit to 1 minute and then first post limit to unlimited (for just this forum) as a workaround?

if the first post limit overrides the 1 minute default then that would be an acceptable compromise

 

[benFF]

if the first post limit overrides the 1 minute default then that would be an acceptable compromise

Yes, that's exactly what this add on does

 

[Stuart Wright]

Yes, that's exactly what this add on does

Nice, free solution, then, thanks.