[davemccourt]

Hello,

First time bbPress user. When new participants register they can’t create new topics for around 15 minutes.

Is this a standard feature and can it be disabled? I have a forum behind a login area so we are able to filter out bots.

Many thanks

[Robin W]

I’m not aware of anything in bbpress that would do this. Bbpress just checks if the user is registered. Are you running caching software ?

[davemccourt]

Thanks for your reply. I’m not running caching plugins or software but I am running Cloudflare. However I believe this only caches static resources.

When a newly registered user tries to post they get this error:

ERROR: Your topic cannot be created at this time.

Nothing is shown in the logs.

I will do the usual testing of disabling plugins and using a standard theme. But do you have any idea how to debug this and track down where this error message is generated?

We do have a long list of moderated words which I suppose may be causing the issue.

[Robin W]

I’ve done some digging.

This error is generated when a word used is in the blacklist_keys stored by wordpress in wp-options, which is presumably where your moderated words are stored.

[davemccourt]

Thank you.