Start off by trying the theme display options at the bottom of the forum admin > Integration > Page and permalink panel. Try the top two of the bottom three – one at a time then together.

OMG!!!! that did it.

thanks!!!

That’s great. The settings are designed for themes that make multiple calls to the WP content filter to ensure the forum content is only displayed the once.

When I select “WP list pages”, it too, will bring up “forum” underneath each of my page tabs (multiple times).  If you click on these new forum buttons, it will take you to that page that the forum button is sitting underneath.  

Deselecting WP list pages eliminates this problem and I only have my page titles showing at the top (not “forum” underneath each page tab).  When I select the forum tab and it pulls up that page, the “forum” tab no longer appears at the top.  The remaining tabs all appear though.  Everything else is fine….I can use the forum, navigate to other pages, etc.  

My question is….is this by design?  Or is this something random.  It’s not a huge deal…more cosmetic.  I tried selecting all the other combinations of the Integration Options and Theme Display options and found that the only thing that makes a difference is the Filter WP list pages.  But if I select the filter WP list pages, the forum page title remains at the top (but with the repeated forum buttons below). 

Hope this makes sense.  I know it doesnt read too well….

Thanks for any help

some themes and plugins do wonky things with the_content filter…  try going to forum – integration – page and permalink and play with the display multiple and display in loop options…  not sure I follow what you did there…

did you also try the strict wp api option?

I actually tried that: went to page and permalink and tried pretty much every combo possible.  The only thing I could determine is that selecting Filter WP list pages will bring up “forum” repeatedly.  All the other options did not make a difference.  So, when I deselect Filter WP pages, I no longer get the repeat.  However, when one goes to my forum page, the actual page tab that reads “forum” disappears.  I removed all my plugins, too to no avail.  Maybe it’s the theme…..but since it’s not that critical, it’s probably not worth the time.

One last thing on this topic, though… I receive an error on the Page and Permalink that reads “The page slug is either missing or incorrect.  The forum will not display until this is corrected.”  Reading the help icon, it appears that this slug not loading is not out of the ordinary.  I simply selected from the drop down and chose my WP page to attach it to – as instructed.  But this error warning never goes away and I am able to access/display the forum.  I just want to make sure that this is constant error notice is normal ….

Thanks for all the feedback!  

MC said
I actually tried that: went to page and permalink and tried pretty much every combo possible.  The only thing I could determine is that selecting Filter WP list pages will bring up “forum” repeatedly.  All the other options did not make a difference.  So, when I deselect Filter WP pages, I no longer get the repeat.  However, when one goes to my forum page, the actual page tab that reads “forum” disappears.  I removed all my plugins, too to no avail.  Maybe it’s the theme…..but since it’s not that critical, it’s probably not worth the time.

First up, the filter wp_list_pages option in SP is an attempt to work around a very old bug in WP that they seem reluctant to fix. It goes back years! What you are experiencing is probably a combination of that, our workaround and the way your WP theme is creating and displaying the menus. Every now and then – rarely these day though – we come across a new variant of menu display that we have not catered for in the workaround which throws it off. I reckon this is probably such a case. Given your WP theme and time to install it and work with it then we could probably fix it.

One last thing on this topic, though… I receive an error on the Page and Permalink that reads “The page slug is either missing or incorrect.  The forum will not display until this is corrected.”  Reading the help icon, it appears that this slug not loading is not out of the ordinary.  I simply selected from the drop down and chose my WP page to attach it to – as instructed.  But this error warning never goes away and I am able to access/display the forum.  I just want to make sure that this is constant error notice is normal ….

Thanks for all the feedback!  

No this is not normal and not desirable! Needs to be addressed.

Can you please do the following: Go to the WP admin > Pages > All Pages and bring up the list. Locate the page being used to display the forum and hover the mouse cursor over it. Down in the browser status bar you should see the url of that page being shown. Part of that will show ‘post=XX’ where XX is the ID of the post/page. What is that number please?

I am using U-Design theme….

The number being displayed while hovering over the page is 247 

Thanks again for all your help.  You guys have been great with the support!

not entirely sure where Andy was going, so may need him to come back… 

but is this 5.1.4? and is the page a top level page or perhaps a subpage (ie has a parent)?

Yes, it is 5.1.4 and I have the forum on a top level page.  

I only installed this a few days ago and it’s been like this from day one.  

thank you

Well we get these unique, one-off things come up every now and then but this really is a weird one. Are you noticing any other problems – specifically in the forum admin arena? Can you generally edit and save data OK?

And is there anything different or unusual about that WP page? Is it actually published for example?

The only other problems I have really noticed were the issues I had with the other plugins and using IE.  When I disabled the plugins, the problems went away.  So, I would suspect those are not related.  

I have no problems in the admin either….I am able to edit and save.  

The WP page is published, but the site is not live yet (not sure if that has anything to do with it).  Other outside users have been able to access and use the forum.  

If you think it could help, I don’t have a problem uninstalling and reinstalling.  

Thanks for the help! 

Actually can you also tell me what the page slug is exactly?

“forum”