Another issue arose with the wpforo_visits table.  It looks like a bunch of entries have been deleted.  An additional "guest" entry was added to the visits table & exported the table to a csv file.  The id entries went up to 344.  I just looked at the table to see if we had any additional guest access & the ids are listed as 341, 353, 354,...  What happened to the intermediary entries (342-352)?  How would they get deleted? 

Also, I've noticed that the number of entries in this table varies.  I browse for 25 entries, but don't always get 25 entries (as is evidenced by the attached screenshot).  I searched on a specific id that seems should be accessible (I searched for id=340) & it doesn't exist.  Is there a deprecation mechanism in place to delete entries?  If so, is there a way to configure this value?

wpforo_visits tracks current visitors to any given forum or topic.

This means it's a dynamic table - rows get added and deleted according to how many visitors are visiting your forum - if there were no users visiting the forum the table would have zero rows, theoretically.

It's described as an upcoming feature here:

https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/ip-addresses/

Also, I've noticed that the number of entries in this table varies.  I browse for 25 entries, but don't always get 25 entries (as is evidenced by the attached screenshot).  I searched on a specific id that seems should be accessible (I searched for id=340) & it doesn't exist.  Is there a deprecation mechanism in place to delete entries?  If so, is there a way to configure this value?

Thank you, again!

Yes, the forum homepage is callable.  When not logged in, it lands on the title page with the icon for unread posts at the right (which is clickable with the full pulldown menu, but no text displays.)  I'd really like to redirect all traffic to the login page if the user isn't logged in. After typing in the url for the forum homepage, I checked the data base & log files.  Nothing is recorded in the visits table, but the wp log files do show access.  Under what specific circumstances is the visit actually logged in the db?

What concerns me is that this pattern happens after a new post occurs, which makes me think that some unknown user is receiving notifications. I've combed the database & don't find anything out of the ordinary in terms of unknown users (it's a small community) or access activity. I have no clue how to track something like this down.

Thank you

The no access doesn't matter. Visitor logging works even if they load the forum home page and even if on that page they don't see any forum. What is your forum home page? Can it be called?

I'm sorry but there is no way to stop hashing IP addresses, unless you can edit the core file /wpforo/wpf-includes/class-logs.php , find this line:

$ip = ( wpfval( $_SERVER, 'REMOTE_ADDR' ) ) ? substr( md5( $_SERVER ),0, 32 ) : '-noip-';

And change it to this:

$ip = ( wpfval( $_SERVER, 'REMOTE_ADDR' ) ) ? strip_tags( $_SERVER ) : '-noip-';

Thanks

Thanks

All is correct, the entries with userid =0 are guest visitors, they dont have userids so we use their ip addresses for tracking.

I'm seeing what looks like weird activity in my wpforo_visits table.  I don't know if it's normal or not.  I see an entry with a user id of 0 and an encrypted ip address.  It seems to happen after a new post is created on the forum (see attached screenshot).  Is this behavior expected?

Thanks