I am using both the Recent Topics and the Recent Replies widgets. The Recent Replies widget works beautifully, but the Recent Topics widget seems erratic. I have it set to list topics by “Newest Topic”, but the order seems unpredictable. Sometimes it uses the creation date, and other times the latest reply date. Sometimes a reply causes it to change the date it shows, and sometimes it doesn’t. It is not a crippling issue, but curious. Was there a recent update that could have changed the behavior? I am using the latest WP (3.4.1) and BBPress (2.1.2), and tried using the recount tools–they didn’t help. The website is here: http://poetryroundup.us/whup/
Any help will be appreciated.
Poking about some more, I see that the widget displays the freshness, but the order is given by the initial posting date. I guess that is a consistent if somewhat unintuitive behavior. It would be great to be able to show the posting date instead of the freshness.