@robert Thank you. Just to be clear, when restricted access is mentioned, what you're saying is this software will not allow users to actually see or ...

@chris : which one displays it like this forum? I've attached a screenshot to show you what I mean  layout.png

@robert Do you know if the Mirage theme changed the view under the avatar to the left of each post? I'm looking at this forum and I see to the left of...

I figured out this is definitely a theme issue. I love wpforo's theme that they use "Mirage" but unfortunately the author no longer posts their theme ...

uploading the second image - this is when I make wpForo the default wordpress site....  turn_wp_to_wpforo.png