I just sorted the twice on the page thing by tweaking the settings in the Integration option. The forum still looks too narrow within the wordpress loop though, so how do I go about making it fit the page width inside the WP content, with a small border.

I still have the Add Topic button issue as well.

Time’s up, back to the day job for now……

I can see nothing obvious causing a refusal for the add topic button to work so might need an account so I can actually get into the forum to see what us going on. If there is a problem it is likely simple to resolve.

The width is caused by the WP theme (WP – 2011) and this is the WordPress team’s idea of a full-width page. We have often joked about this as it is quite bizarre. The only real way around it is to create a special page template as any CSS changes you make to overcome it will effect other pages and posts.

Or… wait until WP 3.5 is released (and it is already overdue) and when you update switch to their new 2012 theme which is more or less the same but DOES perform a proper full-width page. Plus it has some other advantages as well so worth considering.

Thanks for the heads up on WP3.5, sounds like a great idea!

I have noticed that I can add a topic through Chrome, but not IE10, however I don’t have a problem adding a topic using IE10 on your forum. Any suggestions?

I’ve just cleared my IE10 cache and the club forum now works in IE10, but only in compatibility mode which I don’t have to use on this forum.

That sort of suggests that you may well have some JavaScript running on your site that is IE specific and probably intended to try and work around the inherent problems with older versions of IE. Compatibility mode might work well with it but using IE10 in standard mode doesn’t. And that would mean that it is almost certainly throwing script errors so do you know how to look for these?

I had no issue adding a topic in IE 10…  this was in standard IE 10 mode…

http://www.plymouthtriclub.co.uk/forum-2/official-club-training/test-topic/#p15

its in moderation… 

so not sure what you are running into…

I also have an issue with IE 10 not letting me click on any links, the only ones that work are the breadcrumbs and the dropdown menu, get the tool tips but no click function?

Thanks

Oh good old Internet Explorer.. never fails to come up after an update!
It is fully tested on IE10 so we know fundamentally it all works so I would suspect some sort of javascript issue – maybe with something you have that only runs with IE.
I, myself, do not have access to IE or Windows so I can’t try it at the moment. Steve will be along later who can look.
But I believe I am right in thinking that IE10 comes with some tools to view errors now so if possible could you see if anything is getting reported in whatever error console they have put in place?

Actually, IE 10 is not fully released yet (only for IE 8) so technically not fully supported yet… that said, as Andy indicated, I have fully run through this site and many of our test sites with IE 10 and am only running into one issue… The file uploader does not work right except when files are dragged and dropped… and this is due to IE 10 not supporting silverlight (nice move MS – stupid)… and they are trying to resolve it upstream at plupload…

IE 10, like previous IE releases, could be an issue for wp themes that are too greedy with their special IE rules (still sad we have to do that) that may no longer be needed in IE 10..

do you have a link to your site?

It is sort of working for me. I’ve updated to 2012 and patched IE10 to the latest version and the problem persisted, but I found that if I click, hold the mouse down and wait for the popup tooltip to disappear before releasing the mouse button then it will go into a forum, add a topic/reply etc. Is there a way of disabling the tooltip? I have the same problem on my Windows Surface tablet and my Windows 8 PC with IE10.

Thanks for all the help so far.

Curious stuff.

yes you can remove individual tooltips by a simple edit to the SP template. In this case the spTopicView.php template in your SP theme. If you look you should find the display function sp_PostNewButton() – note it appears twice in that template. The third parameter is the tooltip – just remove the text leaving the empty quotes.

As always we recommend that you create your own SP theme so that any customisation is not lost during a future update. (http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/themes/theme-basics/creating-a-theme/)

Nice one, thanks for the help.

You’re welcome.

interesting… are you actually getting tooltips on the windows table???  We disable tooltips when a mobile device is detected…  wonder if this means that the surface tablet is not identifying itself as a tablet???  knowing MS, wouldnt put it past themselves…