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.
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)?
You once gave me instructions on how to have a constant Reply window permanently open below each post. Could that be the problem?
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…
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.
do you have any kind of security plugin or server side security (ie mod_security) that might be stripping url fragments?
Nothing like Wordfence or anything like that. I am with WP Engine and I know Sucuri is used as standard.
have you asked them about url fragment stripping? there may need to be some whitelisting to allow it…
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.
Do a quick search on avada and you see quite a list!
I have not read them all but at least noticed one that said the latest update from the avada team fixed an issue.
The problem is not so much that url fragments are getting stripped. It is more that POST variables from the edit-post form sent to the server are being stripped.
I would start by asking the Avada team what is happening to them. But it would be worth checking if there is a theme update you can try with first