Hello

In Germany a court has decided that it is not allowed to save ip addresses permanently.

I could change the function bbp_current_author_ip() in a way that it always returns 0.0.0.0 but as this is in the /wp-content folder it would be overwritten the next time bbp is updated.

So which way should I take to set IP to 0.0.0.0 without modifying and including all the functions that use bbp_current_author_ip() in my theme’s functions.php?

Thank you.

[@vc1541 Participant 11 years, 5 months ago]

Solved it with the following code in my theme’s function.php:

add_filter(‘bbp_current_author_ip’, ‘my_anonymize_ip’);

function my_anonymize_ip($retval) {
$retval = ‘0.0.0.0’;
return $retval;
}

I found out that the filter “bbp_current_author_ip” is called by bbp when creating a new topic/reply.

[@tinfoiler Participant 11 years, 4 months ago]

Im in need of this code as well, however when i add it to functions in my wordpress theme folder it crashes my website. I tried adding to bbpress functions as well but same problem. Any advice? :/

[@stagger-lee Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

Old topic but if it can help someone. Code is tested and still works, just formatting of code on this forum is wrong.

add_filter('bbp_current_author_ip', 'my_anonymize_ip');

function my_anonymize_ip($retval) {
$retval = '0.0.0.0';
return $retval;
}