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Hi! I literally installed this 5 years ago. I decided to get it going and after getting it back on the site, http://www.socalstandup.com, and I've come up with a few questions.
- The members info below the forums... I noticed at the bottom it says "Members: 1111" but the site has over 1600 members now. Are they not all part of the forum for some reason? Also, it says "Newest Members" and those people aren't new on my wordpress site. They don't have to register for the site and then the forum, right? So shouldn't it show members that have joined lately? Or is that the database remembering from when it was first installed? If so, how do I update it so it sees all the members?
- Is the forum set up right? Should I have something called "socal forums" like I do now and all those sub-forums below it? Or should all these forums be one step up higher on the tree? I set this up years ago and not sure I did it right.
- Is the "Group RSS" button removable? Do people normally utilize it?
- I guess basically besides the few I asked, would you suggest anything? Or does it look pretty ready to go? I haven't announced it to the subscribers yet. I put it on the front page of the site to try to get more interactions on there and I would love to know if I'm totally missing something here. Much appreciated!!!
Thanks!
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Hey kilerb,
As to the membership question, Simple Press doesn't have a unique user base - All SP users are just WP users so you are right when you say they don't need to register specially for the forum.. What membership plugin are you using? As long as people who sign up become actual WordPress members and not members to a plugin then they should show up just fine in the forum.
It might be worth just checking your WP user list to see if the members that are missing from the forum are actually part of it.
Lastly, is everything up to date? Have you installed all updates to SP, SP themes, SP plugins, WP and WP plugins?
The way you have the forum set up, 'SoCal Forums' is actually a group not a forum, so the forums you see inside the group are just forums, not sub forums. Only forums can have sub forums if that makes sense? In short, yes it looks like you've got it set up just fine 😉
Yes you can remove the RSS buttons.. First off, you would need to create a Child Theme, then once done you would need to add the templates you want to modify, in this case spGroupView.php (although the RSS button also appears on forum view - spForumView.php and topic view - spTopicView.php) and comment out the function 'sp_GroupHeaderRSSButton'.
Well it looks just fine to me! But we really should at least sort out the member count issue..
Hope that helps!
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Wow, you're quick! Much appreciated. I have updated SP, but I don't think I've updated the SP themes/plugins. Where is that done? I'm not even sure I have any themes or plugins installed for SP. Should I? Hahaha
Also, just ran into another hiccup... It seems to let me add a new topic to every forum that's there except for the one called "Open Mics..." When I go there it says the forum doesn't exist. But it seems like it does since I see it. So that was confusing. I think the permissions are set the same on that as the others. Any idea on that? Thanks again!
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So what version of SP are you running now?
You should get update messages for the plugins and themes, but it might be worth checking in the forum admin anyway. See Forum > Plugins, and Forum > Themes. You will at least have one forum theme installed.
How about the user / membership plugin question?
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Looks like it's version 5.5.10
No plugins installed it says. (Do I need a plugin to make it email people when there's a reply to their threads? Like when you made this reply I got an email... Is that built in?)
Current theme is "Default" - 1.2.16. Overay sky-red
Regarding the user/membership, I do have "Register Plus Redux" installed. But that does make them standard members of wordpress if I'm not mistaken.
Any idea why the open mic forum says it doesn't exist? The other 2 seem to be working fine.
Thanks!
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for users get notifications of posts to topics they have posted in, you will need our Subscriptions add on plugin...
as to open mic, any caching plugins? or cdn that might be stale?
also, try going to forum - integration - page and permalink and update the forum permalink...
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Hey there... I don't have any caching plugins. I don't think I have a cdn, but I'm not sure what that is. I just did the update forum permalink and the same thing still happens. The other 2 forums let me post, but for some reason, the open mic forum says "The requested forum does not exist" when I try.
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what user groups and permissions have you applied to that forum?
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It says Guests read only access... Members standard access and moderators moderator access.
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no, really meant the individual permissions within each set...
and on forum - toolbox - housekeeping, try resetting the auths cache...
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