Hey cathyw,

When buttons don’t work within the forum you’re normally looking at a jquery conflict. Please see What is this jQuery Conflict for more info.

In fact, looking at your site (assuming the forum in question is at the URL from your email address on your forum profile here) it appears to be an issue with Bootstrap. WordPress doesn’t support Bootstrap and instead has it’s own jquery library which Bootstrap overrides. This causes problems with plugins like SP which makes use of the WordPress jquery library causing issues with functionality – In this case buttons.

The first thing to try, as this seems to be related to tooltips is to disable them for the SP theme. Just to test, please open your Barebones ‘functions.php’ file. This can be found either through the theme editor in the Forum admin panel, or through folders in:

wp-content > sp-resources > forum-themes > barebones > templates > spFunctions.php

One of the first lines of code you will see (on line 17) is:

if (!defined('SP_TOOLTIPS')) define('SP_TOOLTIPS', true);

Change the ‘true’ to ‘false’ so it will appear:

if (!defined('SP_TOOLTIPS')) define('SP_TOOLTIPS', false);

And let us know how it goes. If it works, you could put that into the functions file of a child theme to preserve the change on updating – But we can cover that if the fix works.

Thank you Ike!  It worked.  Building a child theme is next on the to-do list.

Cathy

good to hear… thanks for the update…