No joy. My website guy loaded the code but it hasn’t helped.
Meanwhile I have had a message from Google about “soft 404” pages – all of which have SP prefixes. Don’t know if this is related but it would seem to be a bit of a coincidence if it wasn’t.
I have sent a PM with the URL
I do not appear to have a PM from you. Can you re-send please? To both myself and @mr-papa – and are you supplying credentials so we can login to see if we can locate what might be happening? Please also add a link to this thread so we know what it is about…
Click on the Inbox button at the top and when in the PM screen click on the Compose button. You can then send the same PM to multiple recipients. This is much better than individual PMs as we can all join in the same conversation.
Well this IS a weird one. And not what I was expecting from the description.
Something in that mass of plugins you have active is forcing the entire forum sub-menu to not display. How that is possible I have absolutely no idea and we have never seen this one before. It might be the minify plugin (the forum script files are already minified). But it could well be something else as I am unfamiliar with many of those plugins.
I think you needs to check them one-by-one to see what they are doing and whether they could be the culprit.
You clearly – judging from that google report – have other issues as there are a lot of server errors in there – and they are from all kinds of pages and sources – not just the forum.
But – as said earlier – the good news is that the front end does not seem to be affected by these problems and appears to be functioning OK. You have clearly been running this forum for some time so as so often ois the case, we come back to the question of what changed prior to the admin menu disappearing.
Yellow Swordfish said
You clearly – judging from that google report – have other issues as there are a lot of server errors in there – and they are from all kinds of pages and sources – not just the forum.
I am about to embark on a major redesign of the website which I hope will clear up a lot of these issues
But – as said earlier – the good news is that the front end does not seem to be affected by these problems and appears to be functioning OK. You have clearly been running this forum for some time so as so often ois the case, we come back to the question of what changed prior to the admin menu disappearing.
It’s not only what changed before I discovered this problem, but what changed before the problem occurred undetected. I’m hoping the redesign will clear out any issues.
And on that note, is it possible to export and re-import the Forum, in its entirety, into a new install of Simple:Press?
Yes. Please see this FAQ: https://simple-press.com/documentation/codex/faq/how-to/how-to-move-sp-to-a-new-server-or-domain/
I thought I’d come back and let you know how things are going with the website (flat-chat.com.au).
After adding to and taking away from and generally messing around with the website in various forms for the last 12-15 years, I bit the bullet, hired a web designer and asked him to give me a new theme and clean out all the crap on the site.
The result is a sweet and smoothly running Forum with all access to the back-end restored and all the archived posts retained.
So thanks for your attempts to help – clearly there was too much gunk on the gears for the site to continue in its previous form.
Just for your information, here’s part of the summary of what my web guy did:
Of course, that last item was the critical one. Very happy today and fingers crossed for the future.
Thanks again
JimmyT