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Forum is not displayed on the forum page

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Member since Dec 2015
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Dec 24, 2015 · 2:22 am · Edited

I’m using:

 – wordpress 4.4

 – simple:press 5.6.1

I recently did an upgrade on the wordpress theme and the forum stoped  showing.

I went to the integration menu and tried to change the page. It worked, but the permalink din’t update.

The workaround I found, was renaming the “slut” of the old page, creating a new page with the same slut and setting it as the forum page. 

Hope this helps anybody else and that you guys fix it. 

Cheers,

        Alex

PS: Awesome plugin! Please think about adding a new membership plan : Fan or Supporter – costing only 1 dollar a month. It shouldn’t offer anything, be the same as free or maybe a free plugin or theme once  a year. Anyone who likes your work would most like pay it just to support you guys. 🙂 

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Dec 24, 2015 · 4:32 am

There can be a couple of reasons for this. The first is very rare but we have seen it happen and that is where both a WP page and a WP post end up with the same slug. It is not, of course, supposed to happen and, as I say, is very rare. But this can cause all kinds of problems with the display – notably displaying somethign else or displaying it empty.

More common – although again fairly rare – is when the WordPress ‘rewrite rules’ (these are the set of rules that control page permalinks) get flushed by a WP theme or (more likely) a plugin, but do not get rebuilt properly. Fixing this is usually a case of updating the WordPress permalinks and then updating the forum permalinks in that order.

My guess would be this is what happened in your case as changing a page slug will update the rules correctly allowing things to get back to normal.

Thanks for your last thoughts there. And an interesting thought. Might be worth consideration…