I have installed a WP plugin forum but I need some help with something

by mistyone

Posted: 16 years ago 15 replies

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Hi folks

I have installed a WP forum plugin and it has all gone extremely well considering I have never done anything like this before. I have had someone doing certain tasks for me on this website and one of the things he did was to install some buttons, one of which was put there for me for when a forum was added. I have added that forum

but now I have the forum button on page 9 and the forum is loaded on page 23. How do I get the forum under the forum button? (I hope this makes sense, LOL)

Looking forward to a resolution to this because I feel so pleased with myself that I have achieved this all by myself, but this little thing is alluding me, I just can't work out how to change them over

Thanks in anticipation

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Viv

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jkowaljr

16 years ago

Hi Viv,

I want to help, but I don't really understand your question.

What do you mean by "forum button" and "forum installed on page 23."

Usually the forum is on something like mysite.com/forum or mysite.com/blog/forum.

Is your site like that?

Joe

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mistyone

16 years ago

Originally Posted by jkowaljr

Hi Joe

Thank you for responding to my request for help

Have a look at my site I Married A Fat Bitch (URL in sig) and you will see it is a wordpress site, I have just installed a forum from the Swordfish site called Simple Press forum, a plugin forum. It has installed on page 23 of my site but I have had someone do some work for me on the site and they installed a forum button that is page 9. When someone clicks on this Forum button, I would like them to be opening in the forum. Does that make more sense

?

Viv

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jkowaljr 16 years ago

When I go to the forum page located at:

I Married A Fat Bitch Forum

I just see the title "Forum" and a blank page surrounded by the two side bars.

The forum doesn't seem to be installed properly.

Once you get that fixed, you just need to change the link under the lady's foot to point to that 23 page and you will be all set.
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- mistyone 16 years ago
  
  Thanks for visiting the site. In the documentation it says that it needs to have a MySQL version of 4.2 and above otherwise it might not create the tables properly. It did seem to install alright and I am seeing the forum in the admin area, so I have sent off an email to my webhost because I have looked to see what version of MySQL the fat bitch site installed under and it is 4.1 so maybe this has something to do with it. I am completely green with all of this and this is only my third time that I have installed anything into the plugins of a wordpress site and I thought it was all going so well
  
  If you have anymore to add I would welcome your opinion and if not, then thanks for your time
  
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Manuel Viloria

16 years ago

Hi,

It looks like you have two pages marked "Forum"

http://www.imarriedafatbitch.com/?page_id=9
http://www.imarriedafatbitch.com/?page_id=23

Those links are found in the left sidebar.

The top horizontal menu's Forum button points to
http://www.imarriedafatbitch.com/?page_id=9

If you want it to point to http://www.imarriedafatbitch.com/?page_id=23
then I suggest you delete the Forum page (which is empty anyway) identified
by WordPress as page ID 9.

Kind regards,
Manuel Viloria

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mistyone

16 years ago

Originally Posted by Manuel Viloria

Hi,

It looks like you have two pages marked "Forum"

I Married A Fat Bitch Forum
I Married A Fat Bitch Forum

Those links are found in the left sidebar.

The top horizontal menu's Forum button points to
I Married A Fat Bitch Forum

If you want it to point to I Married A Fat Bitch Forum
then I suggest you delete the Forum page (which is empty anyway) identified
by WordPress as page ID 9.

Kind regards,
Manuel Viloria

Thanks for your input Manuel

I knew that I had two forum pages, one of them being a button prepared for when I installed a forum, the other has been created by the installation of the forum plugin. I don't know why the forum page (page 23) isn't showing the forum, I know why page 9 isn't showing the forum and initially my question was, how do I make the forum page (23) become page 9 but it would appear that I may have a more serious problem because of the fact that the version of MySQL isn't high enough and it may have upset the tables

I could be wrong and I hope I am and that it is very simple to fix but I don't know how to fix it

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Viv

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mistyone

16 years ago

Hi anyone??? who can help

My forum isn't showing up so after reading some of the help answers, one them states "page not showing" says to check the themes 'header.php' and if you don't see <?php wp_head();?> before the closing head</head> tag to add it in and save the template.

Does it matter where I put it? I will paste the code that is between the <head> and the </head> and if someone could tell me where to put it so I don't upset the code, I will appreciate it

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" ><link rel="icon" href="animated_favicon1.gif" type="image/gif" >
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> 
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<link href="<?php echo bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

</head>

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CSwrite

16 years ago

Hi Viv,

You can put it right after the first <head> tag, or after the <![endif]-->

For the other problem, in your WP admin panel go to:

1. Manage
2. Pages
3. Delete Page 9

That will remove the page from your side bar, and should force the top button to point to the correct page, which is page 23. If it doesn't you may need to edit that section in the header - but only if it is hard coded. Try the first fix first and then we can see if that solves your issue.

Hope that helps!
CS

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mistyone

16 years ago

Originally Posted by CSwrite

Thank you CS

I'll let you know if it works.

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Misty

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mistyone

16 years ago

Nope

Still not showing.

mmmmmmm now what? What does 'hard coded' mean, CS?

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Viv

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CSwrite

16 years ago

Hi Viv,

Hard coded means that if your programmer added the link to the header instead of relying on WP to put it in.

Ok, it looks as though the sidebar and the top button are pointing to the correct page, so we just need to tackle what is keeping the forum from appearing on that page.

Let me look around and see what I can find.

CS

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mistyone 16 years ago

Once again, THANK YOU

We lost the forum for a minute, LOL. I was a little concerned it was because of the code I put in this thread!

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Viv
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CSwrite

16 years ago

Viv,

No problem - happy to help!

Does your host let you view error logs? That may help quite a bit to see what's going on under the hood.

The PHP version is likely to blame however. Your host should be able to upgrade you and that should solve the problem (in theory anyway).

I think I would try that first, before going any further. From there, you may want to uninstall the plugin and reinstall it to see if that will solve the issue.

Let me know how it goes with the PHP upgrade and I'll help if I can!

CS

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peteinoz

16 years ago

Hey Viv,

just like to comment on your blog..

One of the tidest blogs Ive seen for a while..

I like it!

Congrats

Pete

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mistyone

16 years ago

Originally Posted by CSwrite

Sorry about my slow reply, I was making a cuppa:p
I'm a little lost with what you have just said about error logs and a PHP upgrade

I did send off an email to my host asking if the MySQL could be upgraded from 4.1 for thr Fat Bitch, which it currently is, but I have not had a response. I don't know very much about this sort of thing but I am learning everyday

I'll keep you posted

Originally Posted by peteinoz

Hey Viv,

just like to comment on your blog..

One of the tidest blogs Ive seen for a while..

I like it!

Congrats

Pete

Hi my fellow antipodean

Thank you for your kind words, it is very rewarding making this blog and I feel quite proud of what I have managed to achieve so far, but I have to be honest it is, with help :p

Cheers
Viv

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