To be honest – still confused. I am totally unable to replicate this behaviour and looking again at the DB query that populates the data – and the code that arranges it – there is nothing in there to stop old topics being listed. The only real item that should or might effect it is permission settings. It it is all fairly straightforward.

As an aside I have also tried to load up Quick Cache (not Pro of course) but am unable to test with that active and/or disabled because it just doesn’t work for me! Followed all the instructions and I don’t think I am daft,  but it just fail’s to cache anything!

I understand that.
I’ll keep an extra eye for some time and try to collect more data on the phenomenon.
Thanks for the help so far, I will come back later when I have gathered some more details

Thanks. We would very much like to be able to get to the bottom of it…

Now I have got it working but not as I first wanted. There seems no better than that there is something strange with the widget
I deleted the widget “Recent Forum Posts” and placed the Short Code [sp_latest_posts] in a text widget instead.
It works but is not as smooth as it was before.
With this Short Code [sp_latest_posts] also is displayed as an example the time 32 minutes ago. How do I remove (32 minutes ago)? And at the same time limit the topics to five
Have tried using the codes available on http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/our-plugins/the-template-tags-plugin/template-tag-latest-posts/ but have not succeeded with any of the other codes in the text widget.

The widget was good and easy to set up and I miss it already.
regards

Snabel

Before going into detail on your question, I would point out that the template tag, short-code and widget ALL call exactly the same code to query and display the data. There will be no difference in the items designated for display so changing from one top the other is not really necessary…

Would add that the options could be different.. Same available as in widget options and tag, but you have to pass as arguments to the tag