Yes but what – exactly – happens? Does the page reload or not?
And – are you using the Admin Bar plugin? And if so do you have posts in the admin’s postbag that have not been attended to because if you have then the post count will not be reduced. And that has always been the case.
yes after click the site is reloading, but the counter dosn`t change.
no i m not using the admin bar plugin.
http://www.bulls-club.de/forum/
If you click on the ‘New/Recently Updated Topics’ quicklinks drop down next to the search control are any topics shown in red?
mmh. now i coulded mark the post to read… 
most time there are 3 or 4 posts unread. i can click the posts in pulldown menu, but they are still red. after click the mark read button they are also still red in the pulldown menu.
crazy
So yes -you have posts in the list coloured red? And I feel sure that the number of these equals the number in your unread post count. Yes?
This means that they are awaiting moderation and approval. So they either need manually approving via the forum tools (as you are not using the admin bar) or, if the option is set, they will be automatically approved if an admin posts a reply to them.
Yellow Swordfish said
So yes -you have posts in the list coloured red? And I feel sure that the number of these equals the number in your unread post count. Yes?
Yes!
This means that they are awaiting moderation and approval. So they either need manually approving via the forum tools (as you are not using the admin bar) or, if the option is set, they will be automatically approved if an admin posts a reply to them.
But what do you mean with approving? There is no permission or something else required. Is there a way for an automatical approval?
I had now installed the admin bar. the bar show me: Unread: 0 – Need Moderation: 0 – Spam: 0
but there are still 2 topics “red” and counter show 2 too.
both topics are pinned.
The admin bar will not retrospectively count posts when it is activated as it maintains a separate list.
Check your moderation settings in the permissions (http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/faq/problem-with-post-edit-buttonow-to/problem-with-post-edit-buttonow-do-the-post-moderation-permissions-work/).
When you load the posts in question is there an approval option on the forum tools menu?
Yellow Swordfish said
The admin bar will not retrospectively count posts when it is activated as it maintains a separate list.
Check your moderation settings in the permissions (http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/faq/problem-with-post-edit-buttonow-to/problem-with-post-edit-buttonow-do-the-post-moderation-permissions-work/).
This is ok.
When you load the posts in question is there an approval option on the forum tools menu?
Load the posts in question? What do you mean with this?
So bizarrely the suggestion is that two posts have been stuck in the moderation/waiting list even though the admin bar plugin was not active. I really don’t see how that could happen but let’s try it out. As you have the admin bar plugin active now click on the ‘View New Posts’ button and when the section below opens click on the ‘Empty the Admin Postbag’ button and see if that changes anything.
I did that and now there is only one topic left. I don`t get it marked… So strange.
If there is still one left that that still suggests that the root post is in moderation. Are you able to look at your database tables directly? If so the look at the ‘sfwaiting’ table where they might be one entry. There is a column in there for the ‘post_id’. Then look in the ‘sfposts’ table for the record with that post_id and look at the ‘post_status’ column value. if 1 it means means it is awaiting approval. A 2 means it is marked as spam. A zero means it is a normal post.
