Thanks @sofy and welcome back.

I understand that wpForo now offer paid support too. Check out their offering - they should be able to provide what you need.

Thanks for the explanation Verek. Although in my case I don't see any of the private URLs in my sitemaps, I have updated that setting as you and...

@tutrix thanks for that, but, let me ask you, why should I do that? Google is not able to access the private forums because it does not have a "priv...

Do you mean this one?  index.png

@verek I agree that crawlers respect robots.txt but in the case of private forums this should not be needed. After all, the content is not accessibl...

I thought it odd as I didn't have an avatar this morning. Now there's the robot.

What's going on with the Forum avatars. Some of us with no uploaded avatar have now been defaulted to "robots" avatars?

Thanks Verek, I do have a robots.txt file but I don't have the private forum names in there. Why should I?

@dimalifragis it's not about cutting anyone slack IMO. It's about communication to your community. There's nothing wrong to say something like...

@dimalifragis Thx I already checked the sitemaps. None of the private forums or topics are in there.

Ok thanks, so that means people are not Missing In Action or anything like that, which is good news. It also means, though, that bug queries her...

Thanks Vanessa, that's exactly the question I have. I have already tested the link with a private browsing session and, of course, the site asks you...

Thanks Vanessa, out of interest, when was the last time you engaged with them?