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Mark Smith
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Feb 18, 2017 - 9:40 am

Hi there. The Edit Post button doesn't seem to work in my forum. I've checked the permissions and they're all fine. It should be working. I can't even edit the posts as Admin. When you click on Edit Post it just refreshes the page.

Any ideas? I'm using the Rechild theme.

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Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 18, 2017 - 9:51 am

Well - it should refresh the page but with an open edit window. When you click on the edit post button, and the page refreshes, what is the URL - (the bit after the topic name)?

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Mark Smith
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Feb 18, 2017 - 9:55 am

The Url is the same as the post page. It's a straight refresh.

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Mark Smith
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Feb 18, 2017 - 9:57 am

 You once gave me instructions on how to have a constant Reply window permanently open below each post. Could that be the problem?

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Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 18, 2017 - 10:12 am

Now that is a real good thought and you may be right... We will need to do some tests...

There should, however, at least have been '#spEditFormAnchor' at the end of the url after the refresh... the absence of which may also suggest something else...

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Mark Smith
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Feb 18, 2017 - 10:47 am

Just tried switching themes between a few themes and it's still the same. Just a refresh with no anchor at the end of the url.

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Mr Papa
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Feb 18, 2017 - 12:36 pm

do you have any kind of security plugin or server side security (ie mod_security) that might be stripping url fragments?

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Mark Smith
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Feb 18, 2017 - 2:25 pm

Nothing like Wordfence or anything like that. I am with WP Engine and I know Sucuri is used as standard.

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Mr Papa
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Feb 19, 2017 - 1:54 am

have you asked them about url fragment stripping?  there may need to be some whitelisting to allow it...

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Mark Smith
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Feb 23, 2017 - 7:41 am

Hi again. I've talked to WpEngine and they looked into it. They don't have have fragment stripping going on so they told me it would be most likely a plugin or theme conflict.

Soooo, in staging I tried out a different theme and the Edit post worked. The theme is Avada. I don't know if anyone out there has also had issues with Simplepress/Avada conflicts. I can't change the theme because it's so fundamental to the site construction. 

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