Ok.   So I just tried it again and now it seems to be working again on Firefox.  I didn’t change anything.   Weird.   Not sure what was causing that………

no caching plugin, right?

Nope,  no caching plugin.

but still working?

Yes, it is working.   Thanks

cool. thanks for the update.

HI, I’m having this issue… just created the groups and forums.  No cache or yoast plugin… can you please help me?

Thanks

lets leave this in your other topic… two different topics for same issue just confuses the issue…

So I had the same problem just now with 404 pages.  I had to windows open in Firefox.  One for the Admin area and one for the front end of simple press.  I was logged in to the admin page and made a change to simple press.  I then clicked on the other window I had open to the forum and clicked refresh to see the change.  When I clicked on a topic I got a 404 error page.  I went back to the admin and when I tried to click on an area I was told I was logged out.  Is this normal?  I can’t have two windows open and be logged in to the admin and forum at the same time?  Is Simple Press, My subscription plugin or wordpress logging me out when I switch pages?   Any ideas?   Thanks,   Steve

Well first thing to say is that login/logout etc., is all handled in the WordPress core. However, as a developer I need to have the admin AND the front end open in adjacent tabs virtually 100% of the time. The only time that WP logs me out is when the WordPress ‘nonce’ – which is a timestamped and unique key used to identify the referrer – expires. Having said that, WP does seem to have become a little more picky in more recent versions over the issue of logging me out but I can usually at least get through a day with no problems.

So basically no – this is not that normal unless you have ad the session open over the nonce timestamp boundary.

It happened again tonight.  I was in the WP admin page.  I closed the window and opened a new window to post in the forum.  Logged in, clicked on the forum page and got to it fine.  Then clicked on a topic and it logged me out and I got a 404 page. I tried multiple times with all failures.  Finally, I opened another page and logged back in to the WP backend.  Then I logged out and closed that window.  I went to the forum again and now it works fine.   It seems that I have to log out of the admin to get to use the forum front page.   Any idea whay that is and what is causing it?     Thanks, Steve

Now it’s happening again on every topic and I’m not logged in as an admin on another page.    It did fix it for a second but now it’s logging me out again.   Could this be a plugin conflict of some sort?    Steve

Well as we have already said – this is not normal WordPress behaviour by any stretch of the imagination so it has to be something in your environment that is the cause. Whether this is your local PC/Browser (unless it happens to your users as well); a server setup/configuration issue; or some sort of weird knock-on from another WP plugin is hard to tell. Why you get erratically served 404 pages in the first place is irrational!

Do your users suffer the same issue with 404’s and being logged out? Or is it just you?

Yes, m  I just heard from a user who tried to get into the forum and got a 404 page………   I’m using groups from Woocommerce to protect the forum so I don’t know if that is causing the problem or it is a Simple Press issue.    Steve