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Hi guys,

I've been having some issues with geotargeting lately. When I've been visiting my site from the US using NordVPN, it's been triggering the geo plugin "bots fallback country", so it's been serving the wrong geo content due to this. As it turned out, the IP address used by NordVPN from the US, is classed as "bots" by the geo plugin, hence why the fallback country triggered.

But what I also noticed is that the login and register buttons went missing on those pages that randomly got cached as bots fallback country. At first I though this too was related to the geotargeting plugin, but I actually think this is a separate issue.

Is it the case that when bots hit the page, wpforo login and register buttons are hidden from bots? If so, that would explain why they get cached as hidden when visiting from an IP that is considered a bot.

Otherwise I have no clue what is causing this. It ONLY happens when I visit from the US. Any other country, all is fine. The login/register menu links are always displayed correctly, so I don't think there is a general issue on the site.

The menu links are excluded from cache both in lscache and cloudflare.

Thank you