Forum admin > Integration > Page and Permalink. Have a play with the top two options in the ‘Theme Display Options‘ section. One of those should sort the issue. Try them one at a time preferably only keeping one of them on but both if necessary. These settings should help out when a WP theme does a little non-standard stuff with a page template. The fact ot worjs on another site might be down, possibly, to the theme options you have set.

We have a lot of users working just fine with this theme.

We also have users running DAP I believe. So – it depends on what you actually mean by ‘integrate’. User credentials, login/logout/registration etc., is all under the control of your WordPress site. Simple:Press does not get involved in that at all. But mapping users to SP User Groups for example, might be relevant depending on the integration you have in mind.

looks like you have fixed it since I dont see the duplication anymore…

a couple more things on the DAP usage (since I have set up couple sites using it)… 

As Andy says, we have numerous using using it and its really about wp, so if logged into wp, you are logged into sp… 

you will have to have DAP option for wp user synch set…  DAP uses their own user db tables (it supports more than just wp), so you have to enable the sync so the users exist in wp too…

since DAP has its own login page, you will want to edit the login form template tag in the simple press theme you are using (suggest creating a child theme) and modify it to output a link to the DAP login page rather than displaying the inline wp login form… see:  http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/api/template-functions-and-the-api/display-template-functions/common-view/sp_loginoutbutton/

Hi, first time poster here!

I am having trouble integrating my Simple Press forum into an Optimize Press 2 page (which contains the standard header and navigation bar I use on all my pages).

Is there a Simple Press forum shortcode I can use?  I don’t know how to “put” the forum into an Optimize Press 2 page. I’ve gone through the suggestions in this thread and have spent many hours trying to figure this out.

Thanks for any help or insights!

A bit confused. Are you saying that when you installed Simple:Press it did not create the page it needs to display itself on?

What have you done so far? Have you installed SP? Did that go through smoothly and report it had finished?

If so then by default it should have created a WordPress ‘page’ named ‘forum’. Go to the forum admin > integration > page and permalink panel and look at the top. Is a page selected? And if so has it not injected the page into your menu system or will you need to do that manually (which is possible under some circumstances).

That’s probably asking enough for now. Come on back with answers and we can assess where you are.

Thank you for the quick help! 

Yes, I’ve installed SP and that went smoothly. It created a default WordPress ‘page’ named ‘forum,’ and right now under forum admin > integration > page that ‘forum’ page has been selected. Just as you said.

So SP is showing up and looking like this – the default wordpress theme template (attachment below)

I’d like to include the same header and navigation toolbar I have for all my other pages (Optimize Press 2 pages). Unlike what Eric mentioned above, my Optimize Press 2 doesn’t have a membership page template.

This is what the rest of my pages look like:

Please let me know anything else I need to clarify

Let’s try the most obvious first.

The page display is ruled and controlled by your WordPress theme so you need to check which page template the forum page is being displayed with. Edit the page in WordPress and one of the options over on the right should show a list of page templates that are available. We normally just set things up to use he default but you may need to change this to suit the rest of your site. Check this first to make sure this is set up as needed.

I have checked the ‘forum’ page again and looked at the page attributes section. In Optimize Press 2 (unlike Optimize Press 1) there are no page templates to choose from. Optimize Press 2 does have a number of “content templates” but none of them involves a forum… that’s why I was wondering if there’s a shortcode I can use to place my Simple: Press forum into OP2.  Is there another solution?

sorry, confused….  are you trying to change the page template or the actual wp page?  two different things… 

you select the page on forum – integration – page and permalink…

you select the page template (from ones provided by your theme) when you edit the actual wp page the forum is on… there you can change the template…

Hi –

I am returning to this topic as I am finally getting back to set up the forum properly on our site.

I have a similar question as the other poster in this thread: I can get the forum to show up but it’s above the header info that normally shows on the member pages.

In OptimizePress 2 the header (navigation bar and logo, etc.) is apparently NOT handled using the WordPress header code – it is simply part of the page contents (within the loop). For this reason, the forum shows up on the page ABOVE the header, since the OP2 header is actually part of the page container.

Instead of inserting the Forum on a page using the built-in Integration settings, which place it above what should be the Header and Navigation menu, it would be helpful if one could “call” the Forum using a shortcode, so it could then be placed under the “header” graphics and menu, and above the footer.

See my screenshot for how this looks on my site. The URL currently for this forum page is:

http://architectsmarketing.com/member-home/forum/

Eric Bobrow

first, go to forum – tools – integration and check the settings for display in loop (try true) and display multiple (false)… 

if optimizepress is one of those really quirky themes (we do have several users using it – search for some other potential workarounds), on the same page you could bypass the wp_head action that standard themes do…

and lastly, you could try setting the strict api option…

certainly one of those should work since as I said, we have multiple users using optimizepress and simple press together just fine…

Thank you Mr. Papa!!

The solution was to use these two options:

• Force the strict use of the WP API
• Bypass wp_head action complete requirement

I had tried some of the other options you mentioned, but these turned out to be the ones that made it work!

outstanding!  no such thing as standard in wp land!   hence we have those options to try to cater to all…  thanks for the update…