I searched the forum for an answer on this but couldn’t find one.

Can someone please tell me what the strange numbers under the author represent and how to remove them? Its only visible when logged in.

thanks!

[@robkk Moderator 10 years ago]

its the ip address of the current user

to know for sure search this in google: whats my ip address?

and then it should show it there

the ip addresses only show for admin users

its there so you can ban the users that are spam , human/bots

you can ban them using WordPress comment blacklist in settings>discussion

bbPress uses some of those settings too.

use this css to remove it.

span.bbp-author-ip {
    display: none !important;
}

[@robkk Moderator 10 years ago]

the IP blocking feature in the comments section is different than i expected you would probably need a seperate ban plugin to do as i meant.

the word filter does work in bbPress though