@antonM, that indeed got topic pagination back that is maintained even after new posts are added to the DB. thank you so much. 

This fix worked until a new topic/post is made whereby the pagination disappears again. Have reverted back to the class-posts.php mod as shown at:

@sofy , the cpanel DB check/fix did fix the problem. Thank you.

@Robert, the cookies option is improving the view count of my problem topic. Thank you 🙂

@Robert, all checks out apart from"Make sure wpForo Cookies are enabled in Dashboard > Forums > Tools > Privacy & Rules admin page." This...

@Robert, further to my previous point, I see frequent "1/2/3/4/5" viewing the topic in question, clicking the topic showing they are not registered us...

@Robert, both those settings are enabled. I'm using Google Analytics and notice for one topic it's getting 700 distinct views over a day. Wpforo has r...

@Robert, have you guys had a chance to count guest views of a topic? My testing showing guest views are still not being counted.

Post logging limits please Nice feature that Edit post logging with date and author name . Problem is for frequently editted posts/topics, this log be...

I've logged a related bug report with gvectors:

My bad. Looks like the theme is applying smooth scrolling to anchors. Thank you for the help.