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Send Notification Emails Asynchronously

support — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:09:50 +0000

RE: Queue subscription, mention, and follow notification emails to be sent in the background. This prevents delays when posting replies to topics with many subscribers. Recommended for forums with active subscriptions.

Question 1: I want to understand the process. Does the comment post first and then the email process is called or is the email process called during the comment posting to the subscribers?

Question 2: If for example we have a 100 subscribers and the Send Notification Emails Asynchronously is checked YES, is the comment dumped all at once to the server for email processing or in your program do you throttle or rate limit the email sending?

Share buttons will not show at the top of posts rather than the bottom

auntiebiotics — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:12:54 +0000

I am in the process of setting up my site ABCofUC

I have tried everything AI suggested to get the share links to appear at the top of my posts. Right now, I have both top and bottom switched on, but the share links are very far down the page, after the reply section. Visitors may not see them. My only other option is to put the HTML in the source code of each post. I have tried this on one post, and it works. My question is: Is there anything you guys could suggest to help me out ? Thanks in advance.

I am using the GeneratePress WordPress theme, which contains only legal pages. I am using WPForo free version as a forum and that will contain all my posts,

options for tracking statistics / engagement

daniellerch — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:29:31 +0000

We'd like to be able to view statistics like # of new topics, # of posts written, # of likes, # of views, # of users engaged, etc. on a time basis (e.g. weekly / monthly, or at least custom date range).

We'd LOVE to be able to see these statistics *by user* as well.

What are our options for that? Or is this custom work that would need to be done?

What is the difference between Topic and Thread?

daniellerch — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:14:05 +0000

Following on this earlier post about Posts vs Topics, my question is: What's the difference between Topics and Threads? For example, in the main Forum view this tooltip refers to "Threads":

134

But as you can see here, we have two Topics:

135

So, are Topics and Threads not the same?

Thanks!

Suggestion: Instructions about moderating posts

daniellerch — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:38:25 +0000

I've had a hard time figuring out how to set up and manage the moderation of posts/topics/replies. The information here in the documentation under "Forum Moderation" doesn't actually say anything about moderation and seems to be more about managing forum setup.

I eventually found some of what I needed here:

https://gvectors.com/how-to-disable-topics-and-posts-moderation/
https://wpforo.com/community/wpforo-announcements/wpforo-1-2-0-is-released/
https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/admin-email-notification-of-post-needing-moderation/

But it would be helpful to have relevant and updated information in the official documentation.
Thanks!

Bot accounts registering despite reCAPTCHA v2 and spam protection

jeanne — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:35:37 +0000

Subject: Bot accounts registering despite reCAPTCHA v2 and spam protection

Hi,

For the past few weeks I have been getting automated-looking user registrations on my website, recently several per day. The usernames are random strings of letters, and the accounts have no forum activity.

The accounts appear both in wpForo → Members and in WordPress → Users, where their role is Subscriber.

My current settings are:

• WordPress Settings → General → Anyone can register is enabled.
• wpForo Enable User Registration is enabled.
• wpForo email confirmation is enabled.
• wpForo Google reCAPTCHA v2 Checkbox is configured with API keys.
• reCAPTCHA is enabled for both the wpForo Registration Form and WordPress Registration Form (as well as login/reset forms).
• wpForo Spam Control is enabled.
• Ban user when spam is suspected is enabled.
• Advanced and IP-based Flood Protection are enabled.
• Akismet is installed and active.

Nevertheless, bot-looking accounts are continuing to be created.

I also have WooCommerce and the plugin Login & Register Forms – Popup, Slider, Profile & WooCommerceinstalled, so I am wondering whether the registrations might be bypassing the wpForo registration form through another WordPress registration endpoint.

Could you please advise me how to determine which registration route these accounts are using, and whether there is a way in wpForo to confirm that reCAPTCHA is actually being executed and validated when these accounts are created?

I am not a developer, so if you need me to check something, I would appreciate step-by-step instructions.

Thank you!

Restrict Profile Pages to Logged-In Users

codings — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:55:38 +0000

Is there a way to make it so users must be logged in to view profile pages? A bot is currently scraping every profile page and it would be nice to be able to prevent that by restricting access to those pages.

Resources too high

babrees — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:51:14 +0000

I have been using WPforo for about 5 years now with no apparent problems, although I had noticed the site seemed to be getting a bit slower.

The other day my host said I must reduce rows in database as there was over a million, which is their limit. We did this.

Then, a couple of days ago they said "the account is still using a much higher amount of CPU than most of the accounts on the server with similar traffic, so additional optimization should be done."

I have been trying to look into this and saw that there were far more visitors than I would expect, up to 5.6k some days. So today I added CloudFlare.

Now I have just received an email from host saying that "the resource usage for this account is not only high, but has increased." I have no idea why it is increasing.

They say my choices are "to either remove the WPForo plugin or move the account to a proper hosting environment immediately."

It is a non-profit site run as a hobby and there is no way a VPS can be afforded.

Is there anything I can do?

Performance issue

hbk747 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:13:47 +0000

Hello, my hosting provider's (Cloudways) slow-request log shows that "mark all read" requests are consuming very large amounts of PHP execution time. Multiple foro=allread URLs are averaging 15–22 seconds, with peaks of 30 seconds, each occupying a PHP-FPM worker for the full duration. On my server (2 vCPU), a few concurrent requests of this type saturate the worker pool and spike CPU.

This is a problem in two ways: automated crawlers hitting these URLs cause load spikes, but even a legitimate logged-in member clicking "mark all read" would wait 15–30 seconds for the action to complete. Please check this image https://ibb.co/0jpwdLnS

Could you advise:

What does foro=allread do internally that could take this long? Is it iterating over all topics across all forums per request?
Are there settings to limit its scope, or is this a known performance issue with a fix or workaround?
Is this improved in a newer wpForo version?

My environment, for reference: wpForo v3.1.2 , WordPress on Cloudways (NGINX/PHP-FPM Lightning stack), Elasticsearch via ElasticPress, Redis object cache, Cloudflare Enterprise in front.

Thank you — happy to provide logs, screenshots, or temporary access for either issue.

Warm regards,
Sarmad
paradigmshift.com.pk

It is possible to enable the "Like" button for guests?

alquimist08 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:10:37 +0000

I want to enable the "like" option for visitors, but it is disabled in the "Access" section.
Is there a way to enable it?

Thanks.