think there is a misunderstanding…  remember, ALL the simple press content appears on a standard wp page…  so its up to the wp theme for that page to do the standard wp header and footer calls, not simple press…

all the forum content is displayed via the wp the_content filter, which is long after the page display has begun…

that said, I would probably bet that your wp theme is doing the header and footer stuff…  but since ALL simple press content appears on a single page, jetpack stats would be incorrectly assuming that there is but a single page of stats to display… it assumes the page is static in content…

again, we actually display all forum content on that single wp page allocated to the forum… the appearance of multiple pages within the forum is just url rewrite black magic..  of course, its all fully supported within the wp api…  but that single page content displayed is fully dynamic based on url rewrite data…

the stats program would be better served to look at the canonical url of the page rather than the absolute wp page url..  unfortunately, this is how too many plugins deal with forums, e-commerce and other plugins that dynamically display page content…

Thanks for the update, I’ll try to place a hook to override that for Google analytics instead.

Is there an option to turn off completely the display of “Unread and recently updated topics” and /or “forum stats section entirely” ? 

bjj scout said

Is there an option to turn off completely the display of “Unread and recently updated topics” and /or “forum stats section entirely” ? 

Absolutely. Simple:Press is template driven so it is an easy task to edit the template to change the display. In this case, for the stats, that would be the spFoot.php template in the /templates folder of whatever SP theme you are using. The stats section is displayed with the code block that starts with the comment:

# Start the ‘stats’ section

so you can remove the entire section (between the section start and section end calls) or just the parts you prefer not to display. Hopefully most of the function names describe what they display.

The unread/new posts list which is shown on the front view of the forum can be located in the spGroupView.php template – right at the end – the function call named sp_RecentPostList(). Just comment out or remove the line.

As always we recommend that you create your own SP child theme or custom theme so that any customisation is not lost during a future update.