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Every time I add one or more forums I need to visit the "Order Groups and Forums" option and all of them are in disorder.
It seems that the forums go back to its original ID number every time I click on "Order Groups and Forums" option.
Can anyone help? THANKS!
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While we have had a few users report issues with this they have all - to date - come down to a conflict with something else they have active on their site. Which can be a little tricky to pin down. Certainly there is nothing in the code or procedure that uses the forum ID's for sorting and ordering. They have their own sequence number columns defined in the db tables (Groups and Forums).
This panel actually uses built in WordPress core functionality - the same functionality WP uses in various WP admin areas.
In an attempt to save you from frustration! - have you tried ordering at individual Group level instead of using the tool that pertains to all groups and forums? On the Manage Groups and Forums panel - the button on the right of the Group rows? Might that help you here?
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Thanks Yellow Swordfish. I haven't add new forums yet, but I did a test and clicked the button you mentioned... the forums appear in their intended order. I'll be using this button instead of the “Order Groups and Forums” option next time.
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Glad it works, we can try and help figuring out what the actual problem is with the drag and drop if you wanted to look further in to it, it might just take disabling WP plugins.
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I seem to be having the same problem. Whenever I create a new forum, whether a parent forum or a sub-forum in any group, my forums reorganize themselves in the order I created them within that parent.
I've disabled all plugins except for Simple Press and tries a couple different themes as well. I also tried the suggestion above and that did not solve the problem.
Since my desire is to have all of the forums alphabetical this is a bit cumbersome to go reorganize everything anytime I make a new forum, which I do frequently.
Are there any other ideas on what could be causing the problem, or is there a way I can force the forum to always sort my forums alphabetically?
Thanks in advance!
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Hey Matthew,
Just out of interest have you tried using a different browser?
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Thanks for the reply! Sorry I am just writing back now, I was out to lunch.
Chrome and Internet Explorer
What triggers the problem is I go to add a new forum, doesn't matter if it is a top level forum, or a child forum to a parent and it does not matter which group it is added to.
When I do this, the forums all re-sort themselves in to the order I created them inside that parent, not the order I last had them set at.
For Example, let's say I have forum A, B and C
I created them in the order of C, A and B
I re-order them to A, B and C, and they stay this way until I add a new forum, anywhere on the forum, it then re-orders them to C, A and B (The order I created them in)
The change is immediate, you can hit refresh on that forum that has those as the sub-forums and they are in the original order.
I've tried moving them to a different parent and back and I've tried moving them to a different group and back and neither of those fixed the problem. This literally happens when the new forum is /created/ so it for some reason is re-ordering everything in the admin on the creation submission.
This is a fresh install, on a fresh Wordpress, just setup since about two weeks ago. I've used this plugin before and never had this issue so I figured I should renew my support subscription and ask you guys if you had any ideas.
Ultimately, whether it be a code change or some other method, all I am looking for is for my forums to be sorted alphabetically. That is why having to re-sort everything every time I add a new forum it is getting quite cumbersome.
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is this genuinely a recent - preferably up to date - version of SP? I can only repeat what I said above - well that and there is no way I can replicate this behaviour. I can have my forums sorted in any which way and adding a new one always just appends it to the end of the currently sorted list. It certainly has no impact on the current ones or their ordering.
I will get someone else here to test it as well.
@ike or @mr-papa - can one of you try this and see if you get different results to me?
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Thank you again for another reply!
This is in fact your latest version, and it was installed on a fresh, brand new Wordpress. (Neither have been updated as they were both installed at the current version level)
I thought it was an odd behavior which is why I thought I'd reach out to you guys and see if you had any ideas.
To confirm, latest Wordpress, latest Simple:Press, no plugins enabled (Except Simple:Press)
The interesting thing is they stay organized until a new forum is created, that is the catalyst. I spent a lot of time trying lots and lots of different things before I reached out to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious.
For the record, as you state above, the new one created that gets added DOES get appended to the end of the list, that does work, the problem is, all the other ones get re-sorted to the order they were created as opposed to the "forum_seq" stored in the database.
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I hate to say it but I cannot replicate this either. The forums on my local test site were created one after the other and kept that way - so numerically run 1, 2, 3, 4 so to speak. If I reverse order them and add a new forum it's simply added on the end and the reverse order is maintained. The same happens if they are jumbled..
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