Actually, that’s not good news. A lot of themes use an older jQuery. Does this mean that editing posts and the admin toolbox will not function on these?
For example I use a very common and popular theme pureVISION on http://guildwars2.si/tabla/ and users can’t edit their own posts (a new page loads, but there is no edit window/editor) and I don’t see the toolbox.
Is there a way to implement these functions in a different way?
Because I’m not going to change my whole theme, just so the forum will become functional.
well if themes dont keep up with wp as far as jquery being used that will cause problems… or at least for plugins that use jquery…
no way plugins can keep working with old themes and older version of jquery… that would be a logistical nightmare… they are designed and tested to work with the jquery that comes with wp… and plugins should indicate how far back with older wp versions they go… in case of sp 5.0, we need wp 3.3 and its version of jquery…
you could try changing the template tag in your sp theme for the forum tools to make them always shown vs the hide/unhide default… and see if that works… but would assume you are still going to have other issues with the old jquery…
you could also edit your theme (probably safe since it does not appear to get updated) where its loading jquery and if the current page is the forum, just load the wp version of jquery instead…
Mr Papa said
well if themes dont keep up with wp as far as jquery being used that will cause problems… or at least for plugins that use jquery…
Well, this is disappointing to hear. Because when you settle on a theme, you usually stick with it for a longer period of time, and theme authors in general move on to building new themes and don’t necessary update existing ones.
I guess I’ll have to hack yet again. 
I hear ya on the themes… and thats a problem when wp moves on and the theme does not… trust me, staying compatible with wp does take effort… we try to support as many old versions as possible, but it eventually becomes not possible with all the changes… jquery is a particularily nasty one…
but as I said, if your theme is not changing, just fixing how the jquery is loaded on the forum page is very simple, just an ‘if’ statement…
I have just set up the V5 forum, and got this issue – can’t delete, move or anything to a post. I can edit it, buy not delete ect.
http://www.w7h.dk/index.php/forum-3
first you have an error in you theme…
<Php wp_footer ();?>
is being output… it should be
<?php wp_footer ();?>
Thank’s and it’s fixed, but I still not got the buttom to delete or move tropic.
Your WP theme is force loading a very old copy of jQuery from the google CDN. They are also not loading it using the WP API which means two copies are being loaded. Both of these are a major problem. See this article for an explanation: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/faq/troubleshooting/what-is-this-jquery-conflict/
The theme (I think) has also embedded some script in the page to load SuperFish which I believe is something to do with menus. This addresses jQuery using the ‘$’ name and should be suing the ‘jQuery’ name.
It’s being a few weeks that I am also having the same issue with the forum toolset button showing but not displaying the moderation toolset list of actions.
It used to work before, I can’t find any major setup change that has created this issue. I am using latest SP 5.0.1 (build 8048). I have a custom theme based on Default 1.0.12, but the problem also happen with a stock Default 1.0.13. I tried changing my WordPress theme (Arras) to a more basic one Twenty Eleven 1.3, I am also having the problem.
Do you have any pointer to fix the problem ? I am not very familiar with Firebug and I don’t know what/where to look, it would be nice if you could check my forum or assist me in solving the problem.
Thank you.
My forum, for reference: http://www.arctablet.com/blog/forum/
There are all kinds of strange things going on on your site that are somewhat puzzling. And when things used to work but then don’t you really do have to work out what has changed.
Still – this may be a step by step process to try and clean up what look to be some errors. So let’s start with 2.
1: at the top of and just before the forum display area there is a div with a class of “entry-content clearfix”. This has a message in a table about the forum being under maintenance. It has been commented out with an html comment tag. But there doesn’t appear to be a closing comment tag so it also seems to be commenting out quite a lot of valid and needed code.
2: There is also some inline javascript – something to do with tabs (multi-sidebar) that is addressing jQuery with the ‘$’ name which really needs to be ‘jQuery’ for using WordPress. It also errors. The weird thing here though is that I can load a forum page and get this error and see this code in the source. The next time I load the same page it is no longer there. I don’t have any idea what that is about I am afraid!
At the moment none of the forum ajax is running but it would be a good idea to at least clean up #1 above so I can take another look.
Thanks a lot Andy for taking time to check my forum.
Point 1 actually fixed the problem, the comment in the WP page that displays the forum. This fixed other things such as the font changer that wasn’t showing anymore.
Regarding point 2, I’ll have a closer look later, as it may be source of problems a later point.
I am really thankful for the great support I have here, that’s really worth the paying member forum contribution, even if I’d like more to contribute as a donator and have a free forum access to anyone.
Excellent. Glad to hear this.
As I said – the second item did not appear on every page load – even of the same page. In some respects that sort of randomness would worry me but maybe it too was a symptom of 1.
I’m having exactly the same problem, no sign of the toolset icon to delete topics. I’m using the cool blue theme out of the box. Our site is: http://forums.shopcreator.com
Any ideas?
Cheers
Odd as I see nothing wrong on your site, the scripts are loading properly, no errors.
Lets double check you are looking correctly just in case. On a topic listing (forum view) or a post listing (topic view) hovering the mouse over a row (slowly) should cause an icon to appear over on the left of the row. Are you confirming that this does not appear when you are using the forum logged in as an admin of the site?