Here’s my problem.

To match blog and forum member roles I needed to make forum members with Author privileges on WP, moderators on the forum. This was fine except moderators can see IP addresses and while I have assured them that members cannot, they are a little freaked out thinking everybody can see IP addresses.

Is there a way to change Moderator privileges so that they cannot see IP addresses?

There is a plugin called ‘Role Manager’ but it does not install, and I could find no help with it on plugin home website, so assume it is dead. ???

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

Role Manager only works on version 1.0 and up…

_ck_ just wrote a plugin last week that removes the ability for moderators to see IPs anywhere in bbPress:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-remove-the-posters-ip-address-from-the-post-display#post-55575

Just stick it in a plugin information wrapper:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#Standard_Plugin_Information

And you should be good to go!

[@batrachoid Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

In bb-includes/functions.bb-capabilities.php

under list of “moderator” roles change

‘view_by_ip’ => true

to

‘view_by_ip’ => false

[@ipstenu Moderator 15 years, 4 months ago]

Yes, but modding core files is bad Makes upgrades a PITA.

[@gardenfl Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

Thanks. I fixed it.

Funny that even while I was looking for a solution I got a note from a member who wanted to know how she could write about a sensitive issue under a different name. I told her to create a different member account. It occurs to me this is exactly the sort of situation where you might want to limit IP viewing to the Admin.

[@batrachoid Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

@Ipstenu, I knew there had to be a reason no one else had suggested it.