Seems to be working OK for me, though I am viewing the page as just a guest. Did you get it resolved? 

Thanks Ike,

Very interesting. For some reason when I’m logged in, the forums disappear. But as a guest, they’re fine. Any ideas for what to check?

Well the first thing to check, are you running any caching plugin of any type?

I do have one on the site, but it’s deactivated right now. I also was using plugin organizer to make it work before, which is turned on now. When I first turned on Simple:Press, it was the only plugin on was doing this. since then I’ve been fiddling with turning plugins on and off to see if there are any changes to anything. Nothing seems to be affecting the forums.

what does visual composer do?  have you checked the server error logs when you get the blank screen?

Visual Composer helps build content on the pages or posts. It’s an enhanced text editor, I suppose. From what I understand, it’s quite popular with premium themes, and the host has never seen this sort of problem with it before. It came bundled with my theme.

The host has been checking the server, but I couldn’t tell you much. I wouldn’t understand the logs even if I did see them.

I do have these notices today in the SP error log

July 20, 2014 4:48 am | spaErrNotice | 3 | php

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file: /simple-press/admin/panel-options/forms/spa-options-global-form.php
line: 50
function: spa_options_global_form
Notice | Undefined index: chile_pages_editor

July 20, 2014 2:50 pm | spaErrNotice | 4 | php

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file: labout/public_html/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins/plupload/library/sp-plupload-components.php
line: 372
function: sp_plupload_do_show_attachments
Notice | Undefined property: stdClass::$forum_id

Does that tell you anything?

Thanks,

Joe

No, the notices are harmless…

Does it do anything on front end? Visual composers that is…

To my knowledge, all it does is enhance the text editor. They call it a “Front end and back end drag and drop page builder.”It adds a lot of capability, making it a very helpful tool. So perhaps it’s “doing something” on the front end in that it adds style and layout.

You can check it out here

http://codecanyon.net/item/visual-composer-page-builder-for-wordpress/242431

Does that answer your question?

OK – sorry – first time on this thread. I have read it through but am still unclear on one point. Are you saying that with this ‘Visual Composer’ deactivated then SP works for you when logged in as admin? Or am I missing the point about this.

And if I AM missing the point then perhaps what we may need will be an account so we can see the display ourselves and see if we can spot anything…

Hi Swordfish,

I’ll back up a little bit. Part of my problem was that many things on the site just stopped working with the last set of updates. We’re starting to market this site, so I needed to make it more functional.

One of those problems was that the forums had stopped working. You could see all the topics, but you couldn’t open anything.

So, I simply turned off all the plugins and started opening them one at a time in order to check to see if there were issues.

One of the first things I noticed was that the forums do not show up for me when I’m logged in as admin. I just saw the top. However, it looks like it’s because I’m using Buddy Press. I just turned on the BP plugin and now the forum seems to be working fine. 

Make sense?

Thanks!

not really…

buddypress and simple press have no interaction unless you have the simple press buddypress plugin active… without it, they are unaware of each other…

latest updates of what?  wp? sp?  bp?

none the less, happy if things are back to functional for you…

lol – I gave up expecting anything logical to work out on this site a long time ago.

I do have the SP BP plugin active. So would it make sense now?

Yes, latest updates… everything. It had fallen far behind.

The site’s still a wreck. But SP seems to be working splendidly.

The combination of SP and the SP BuddyPress plugin without the main BuddyPress active shouldn’t stop things from working. But it is, perhaps, a possibility if there were version conflicts as quite often we will need to update SP core OR a plugin like BP to support changes in WordPress itself. Keeping up to date with everything is largely recommended of course.

The good news is you seem to have your SP back!