Recent Topics widget does not display post date/topic author

[rossob]

Regardless of whether the "show post date" or "show topic author" checkboxes are selected within WordPress, the Recent Topics widget does not show this information.

I am using bbPress 2.4 on WordPress 3.6.1. I also have BuddyPress 1.8.1 installed.

The bug ticket only allows me to select "trunk" as the bbPress version, 2.4 is not an option, so please note I'm experiencing this issue on 2.4 (I haven't tested it on other versions of bbPress to know if it predates this version).

If I hack plugins/bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php on lines 806 and 819 so the if statements always resolve true, this info is shown correctly on the widget, so it seems to be a problem where the two below variables are not being stored or read correctly:

$settingsshow_user?
$settingsshow_date?

I have also tried unselecting the checkboxes in the widget settings panel, saving the widget, then reselecting them and saving the widget again, but it does not correct the issue.

[rossob]

the variables mentioned above should read:

$settings['show_date']
$settings['show_user']

[johnjamesjacoby]

Duplicate of #2319.