@johnjamesjacoby thanks for the suggestion. I wonder if you are on to something. I am using a (minimally tweaked) child theme based on the Twenty Twelve theme. There is a visible Edit link at the bottom of the page to logged in users.
I just edited the content-page.php (deleted) edit link to see if that changes anything. Will report back.
@netweb Thank you!
In a bbPress context is an ‘Anonymous User’, check that you don’t have this enabled.
OK, not enabled. Anonymous posting is NOT checked (Allow guest users without accounts to create topics and replies = NO). Still seeing the dummy revisions.
Also check what WordPress settings are in /wp-admin/options-discussion.php
I checked the box “Users must be registered and logged in to comment,” but that didn’t change anything.
Is this with bbPress disabled?
NO, bbpress was enabled. I disabled bbpress for a few minutes and did not see any post revisions generated during that time period.
Ack! Disabled all plugins and still getting lots of dummy revisions.
There are also huge spikes in server load, in addition to the 500 errors. I’m trying to rule this out as a cause.
This is out of control! There are dozens of new dummy revisions just since I posted this. Will try disabling all plugins except bbPress now.
I’ve got this same problem! In the database, seeing TONS of revisions from post_author = 0. Also getting server errors and timeouts when people try to edit.
Plugins running:
Google Analytics for WordPress
Jetpack by WordPress.com
W3 Total Cache
WangGuard
I just tried unchecking “Allow topic and reply revision logging” under Forum settings. We will see what happens.
