wpForo Support Forum - Recent Topics

How do I make images visible to people who aren't logged into the forum?

joel — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:15:44 +0000

How do I make images visible to people who aren't logged into the forum? On this support forum, when someone visits and reads the replies, the avatar of the person who wrote or commented on the post appears. On my forum, however, nothing shows up; it remains hidden, and users have to log in to see the photo of the person who wrote or commented on the post.

I would appreciate it if someone could help me.

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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!

Slow wpForo Database Queries

codings — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:16:18 +0000

The server host is limiting the site performance, saying it is caused by slow queries, then pointing to wpForo as the cause.

This is from a chat with the host:

The forum is not just slow for one visitor. The logs show a repeated pattern:

Many GET /forum/ requests take approximately 16–83 minutes to finish.

Several end with HTTP 500 after roughly 45–86 minutes.

Other requests return HTTP 200 but still take an abnormally long time.

Bingbot requests are also hitting /forum/; several were rate-limited with HTTP 429.

That means the forum page is triggering a long-running WordPress operation. The most likely sources are the forum plugin itself, its database queries, or an attached feature such as Better Messages, not the basic hosting connection and not your SELECT 1 test.

The access logs cannot reveal the exact SQL statement or plugin function, but they do establish that /forum/ is repeatedly tying up server resources. This makes the forum stack the leading suspect behind the slow-query protection and CPU pressure.

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.

Change theme from fronted (style switcher)

domi1984 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:33:43 +0000

Hello,

My site is using a styleswitcher (light/dark) and based on this switch I would like to load two different wpforo themes. Is this possible? I am able to select one from the backend and I also tried to overwrite it with some custom css but the easier way would be to just re-use two of the existing themes.

Thank you

Migrate from groups.io

JimC — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:58:03 +0000

Am I correct in thinking that the free tool doesn't cover this, and its a pay for option. I only really need to get threaded messages across, I'm not bothered about users.
The Groups.io export is a straight export of email messages in text format, its nothing fancy.

One board broken out of 3

mikeand — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:30:11 +0000

I have one board broken out of three in a Divi 5 website

2 of the boards look fine

This board

https://themage.staging.tempurl.host/imaginarium-community/main-forum/

is a full page disaster

the forums string off down the page with massive spaces.

As far as I can tell the boards and forums are setup the same.

Any help much appreciated.

Mike

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Pagination problem

reitonas — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:58:17 +0000

Hi,

Pagination seems not working on forums.

I cleared the cache, but that didn't change anything. When clicking "Next" or "Page 2..," page 1 always appears instead.

I worked around the issue by increasing the number of posts displayed in the forums.

Replies, comments, adding topics not working, not showing

Panda — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:45:46 +0000

I try to reply, comment, or add topic, it begins to load, page refreshes, but after refresh they don't show up. I don't have any caching plugin installed yet, the site is still fresh

Displaying "Total Views"

support — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:14:48 +0000

We would like to display Total Views at the bottom in the row along side of: Forums Topics Posts Online. Is that an option? (We are not referring to the column individual topic/thread views) but the total of all of them.