I've had a disgruntled member self delete their account this is now causing a problem with Google search since the recent structure update as it has blanked  the Author field. The daily reported errors are in relation to Missing field 'url' (in 'author').  (As a result of this I have now disabled ability for users to self delete).

Google reported error  fielderror.png

All the threads reported by Google are for this user who's posts now appear on the forum as "Anonymous 1405". I thought no problem, I will just delete that account and have all the posts deleted in the process.

That was a big fat NO go!

Why?

Because the "Anonymous 1405 account does not appear in the WordPress user list, nor does it appear in the WPForo members list when viewed from the backend control panel. This appears at least to me, to be a fundamental flaw, as admin I have absolutely no way or removing this user account as it does not exist!

WPForo backend No such account   mem1.jpg

WPForo frontend No such account  mem3.jpg

Wordpress backend No such account  mem2.jpg

My only option would appear to be to manually delete over 1000+ posts via the forum, leaving the phantom account with zero posts, what a nightmare task that will be. 

Hi @cmw14 and @danniee,

The wpForo 2.4.5 has been released, please update, then purge wpForo and other cache plugins.