Is there a way to show to moderators/admins only ipv4 addresses? Now that we moved our bbpress based forum site to cloudflare protection we are getting ipv6 addresses in some posters. We’d like to only get ipv4.

[@sbask Participant 1 day, 7 hours ago]

Alternatively if I can’t disable ipv6 showing, is there a way to better center the info so it can be read more easily?

[@robin-w Moderator 20 hours, 14 minutes ago]

ok, so we can hide the ip6, but getting the ip4 is harder i think.

I found this post relating to Cloudfare which tends to indicate that even an ip4 might be just a Cloudflare address, but I only spent 2 minutes reading though !!

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/real-ip-for-the-customers-cloudflare/

so to hide an IP6, try this (untested!)

add_filter ('bbp_get_author_ip', 'rew_hide_v6') ;

function rew_hide_v6 ($author_ip='') {
if ($strlen($author_ip)>20) $author_ip='' ;
return $author_ip ;
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

or use

Code Snippets

Let me know if it works

[@sbask Participant 8 hours, 16 minutes ago]

Tried it out on our testsite and when I click on anything to do with comments it errors out.

There has been a critical error on this website.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 hours, 32 minutes ago]

apologies, try this

add_filter ('bbp_get_author_ip', 'rew_hide_v6') ;

function rew_hide_v6 ($author_ip='') {
if (strlen($author_ip)>20) $author_ip='' ;
return $author_ip ;
}

[@sbask Participant 7 hours, 23 minutes ago]

Well that didn’t blow it up, but it removed any reference to an IP address at all.
What if we try this a different way? Can we format the Ipv6 to not be centered and instead be left justified?

[@sbask Participant 7 hours, 21 minutes ago]

The thing is the moderators want to see the IPv6 to run it through spam sites.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 hours, 6 minutes ago]

ok so your first post said the exact opposite 🙂 ie they didn’t want to see the IP6

[@robin-w Moderator 6 hours, 56 minutes ago]

Did you read the cloudfare link that said they might not be seeing the real IP address, but rather a cloudfare server address? may or not be relevant.

The classes for that are

bbp-reply-ip
bbp-topic-ip

so should be

.bbp-reply-ip, .bbp-topic-ip{
  text-align: left !important;
}

[@sbask Participant 6 hours, 56 minutes ago]

They don’t want to see ipv6, they want to see the IPv4 versions like the site used to present. Now it does a mixture of ipv4 and ipv6 and it’s hard to read the ipv6 as it spreads into the border of the post.

Sorry if I didn’t make that clear.

[@sbask Participant 6 hours, 50 minutes ago]

Sorry for being dense but how do I use the below to make the IPv6 address left justify?

.bbp-reply-ip, .bbp-topic-ip{
text-align: left !important;
}