Hi
Are there any known conflicts of Simple:Press with other WordPress plugins?
BR
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I know of a conflict with an Event Calendar plugin where both plugins try and itilsie the same functiopn name.
There will be conflicts with any WP plugin that loads it’s own copy of jQuery or the jQuery UI librraries and does not adhere to the WordPress API and standards.
What else did you have in mind?
I have installed Simple:Press and made a group and some forums
However, the forum page does not seem to use its theme.
I already changed the color scheme for the default theme a few times, but that doesn’t help – the color change isn’t saved either BTW although I did click on save.
Do you know what might be wrong?
I was thinking of a conflict with another plug in.
This is what the page looks like
Somehow that looks like it might have more to do with your WordPress theme defining some ‘greedy’ CSS. It would be worth – just as a test – switching to a different Wp theme (like the WP default one) just to find out quickly if that is the issue.
If it is not then a link to your forum page would help us as we can interrogate the CSS to see what is and what is not happening.
You appear to be minifying the CSS via some plugin. This isn’t going to work, especially as the forum CSS may already, possibly, be minified depending upon your settings.
Can you exclude the forum page from this process?
I excluded the page from W3 minify.
Emptied all caches.
No change.
Then I switched off W3 minify altogether.
Emptied all caches.
No change either.
What is the next step?
Well – lets go back to basics. So –
However – having said all that I just looked at your forum page again and I can tell you that the CSS file is not being loaded and that anything that is being loaded is still being done so from the minify plugin. Do you really find this helps?
Did all of the above.
Checked that minify was switched of.
Empties all caches
No change
You said: Do you really find this helps? I don’t understand what you are referring to. Do you mean do I really find minify helps? I don’t know. Never thought about it.
Anyway, what is the next step?
If you want to look at my setup yourself I can give you temp admin access.
Yes i can see it is off now. I also see that no query variable is being passed to load the overlay file wghich is the one with the colours, borders, backgrounds etc. never seen taht happen before so I have yo assume it some odd server setting perhaps.
Csan you try downloading the CSS-Only theme, installing that in the forum-themes folder and activating that. let’s see if the raw CSS theme works.
Installed CSS only theme
That did work
Although now it has both the header and the footer of my WordPress theme under the Forum…
The arrow in the picture points to my WP header:
Basically, I think, you are looking at a WP theme that doesn’t play by the rules and the standard API. Go to the forum admin > Integration > Page and Permalink panel. There are some display options down there to try and cope with errant themes regarding mutiple displays etc. Try those one at a time to see if they help.
‘Force strict use of API’ makes forum disappear altogether.
‘Limit forum display to within WP loop’ does display theme in the right place (between WP theme’s header and footer, and boxed 800 px) but without the graphics (overlay?)
Other options make no difference.
Switched back to css only theme.
Got a passable forum lay out…
But then the next problem pops up. I added the page called ‘Forum’ to the menu (with the display title ‘Forum’). But it displays in the menu as; ‘Welkom op het forum | NLP Masters 2014 | Forum‘. Why on earth does it do that?
I am getting dishearted….
probably because the page title and nav menu title (uses similar) are the most overused items… seems every theme and plugin wants to get a hold of theme and change (not incorrectly either)… so you end up with the various requests fighting each other…
try going to forum – options – display settings and removing the page title…