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Do I need to become a member before this action is enabled? Or is it because my site is not live it's not allowing for the "add topic" button to work? Right now I click on it and nothing happens. I will not launch my site until I'm good with the forum function.
No, neither of the above are right, the 'Add Topic' button should work just fine even locally..
This normally comes down to a jQuery conflict with a WordPress plugin. Since your site is not live then we can obviously not take a look, you might have to see if there are any errors in the console when you load the page.
Either that, or try disabling all your WP plugins, if that fixes it then load them one at a time until you find the culprit.
Hmm...I disabled all WP plugins except SimplePress and it still does not work. How do I check the the jQuery conflict?
Ike said
No, neither of the above are right, the 'Add Topic' button should work just fine even locally..This normally comes down to a jQuery conflict with a WordPress plugin. Since your site is not live then we can obviously not take a look, you might have to see if there are any errors in the console when you load the page.
Either that, or try disabling all your WP plugins, if that fixes it then load them one at a time until you find the culprit.
For example in Firefox, right click anywhere and 'inspect element'.. You want to use the console to find errors as you refresh the page and click buttons.
Who knows.. could be your WP theme itself. Might be worth trying a default one
Ike said
For example in Firefox, right click anywhere and 'inspect element'.. You want to use the console to find errors as you refresh the page and click buttons.Who knows.. could be your WP theme itself. Might be worth trying a default one
Yikes, you're right--it is my WP theme. Any insight on how to remedy?
Glad you found the problem, but unfortunately this is about as far as we can probably help. Especially as your site is not live, and the workings of your WordPress theme are not something we can really offer support on. (of course, we do what we can!)
Also this forum is really for pre-membership queries, not support.
Yellow Swordfish said
This might help you however:
Thanks!
Just as an FYI, here is my site live if you can take a look to see if you can spot the problem:
The theme script file plugin,js is showing an error at the very first line of the script - Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'options' of undefined. Something called vTicker perhaps?
My best guess is that they are loading their scripts on every page even if not used on that page and perhaps the support the scripts are expecting is just not there... If this is the case then they should be encouraged to only load them when actually needed...
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I just experienced a similar issue as original poster.
I thought I'd just detail my results below which may come in handy for anyone else who encounters this.
Using the console view from developer tools, refresh the page problem page to look for errors. Then try to see which script it is and what it is used by. In my case it was a plugin.
Then I installed a plugin called 'Plugin Organizer' by Jeff Sterup. Once installed under the 'Plugin Filters' menu you can add a url (yourdomain.com/forum - for example). Then you can choose to disable the problematic plugin as you like. This plugin seems pretty useful for exactly this kind of problem.
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