link wont load for me…  can you explain?  something must have changed?  wp core, wp theme, wp plugin updates or sp updates?

trying to guess from topic title, but what do you have for options on forum – integration – page and permalink?

seems fine now! go figure…seriously, it was gone….here’s the screen capture….

the black box is where the menu item “forum” lives…see on site and the title shows up: http://photosuccess.com/

🙂 Fingers crossed!

crap…it’s back….any idea what’s going on?

Well there has to be a cause. How about what Steve said in post #2?

Plus what are your settings regarding the nav menu? Are you removing the title in Forum > General Display Settings > Forum Page Title?

re#2 it’s set to the Forums page (see attached SC…) and your query Ike (you meant Forum/Options/General Display right?) it all looks good, never touched anything….it did get set up within the Appearance/Menus/Edit menus initially. Set it, forgot it, all was fine….now this, which seems intermittent….

not sure what that screenshot is in reference to… Ike’s question was on forum – options – display settings…

that screen shot was to do with #2..your query re: forum integration…”, but what do you have for options on forum – integration – page and permalink?…”

I was really asking about the pane ‘Forum Page Title’ within General display settings, which has the option to remove the page title.

In the past when some people have done this, they have lost the ‘Forum’ title from their nav menu. Sometimes changing the status of ‘Filter WP List Pages’ from Page and Permalink has helped, sometimes not. Because the nav menu is down to the WP theme or nav menu plugin it’s always a bit hard to say for definite what will work, but creating a plain link in the nav menu to the forum page should always work.

But I’m not sure why this would come and go, it suggests to me that something is being activated / deactivated or has been updated, possibly theme or nav menu plugin..

Still having the black box where menu items should be…

My mods are pointing it out. one posted:

“I don’t know if this is just me, the fact that I’m using Chrome, or if this is happening to everyone, but with buttons at the top, “Join Us”, “Photography Marketing” etc, the “forum” button is all black and you can’t read it. The only reason I know it’s the forum button is because I could read it a day or two ago and, even though it’s now a completely black square, I can still click it to get to the forums.”

Im using firefox and have the same thing happening. very odd…only when logged in…

I am not sure why it would come and go either or be any different if logged in or not.

This is really a combination of an old and long-standing WordPress bug and the way your WP theme is handling the menu creation and display. Having said that this is not a variant I have seen before so it is probably more theme CSS than anything else.

As Ike said above – the usual way to overcome this on sites that see the problem is to change the automated menu link (in the WP appearance > menus setup from a standard, automatically created age link – to a custom link with a hard-coded url. This – as I say – mist usually solves the problem nicely.