Hey Robert,

First thing to check is what is special about these 2 users? Are they in a different usergroup to everyone else? If so have you set up a test user account you can put in the same usergroup and test yourself?

Other than these 2, do you have more users who have had no problem?

Aside from the above, it could be down to a plugin conflict. Are you getting any errors on the page in the browser console?

I’d be happy to take a look if you could post a link.

I knew you were gonna ask that:) re: users….i shoulda posted in my post that i checked, and unless I missed something (could very well be), all is equal….

I created a test user and logged in as that, and yes, I only see, as test, the same as everyone else..

im guessing this is a simple fix….

you having a look would be great! You need login info i created:

http://photosuccess.com/wp-admin

thanks

Thanks, I’ve removed the login details from your post. Although generally speaking everyone here is pretty decent, you never know who’s reading!.. In the future, you’re more than welcome to PM login details to all the admins (myself, Mr Papa and Yellow Swordfish) with a link to the thread in question and a brief reminder of the problem – It’s our preferred method so one of us can take a look.

OK so this is a bit strange. Do you see the posts OK?

They’re not showing up for me but what is more worrying is that the post content div’s don’t contain any text and the post numbers jump from post no.1 to post no. 303155.

Have you imported this forum from elsewhere? If so did you also bring over the relevant WP ‘users’ and ‘usermeta’ tables?

One other thing I notice which needs fixing to eliminate it as a problem is your timezone. UTC isn’t fully supported by WordPress so that needs to be changed to a genuine timezone. This has been known in the past to cause all manner of problems.

I can see everything, as admin. When logged in as test, I see what they see. I can send you my admin login if needed.

We did migrate the posts over. i am getting all users to manually re-register from scratch, since the users brought over needed to be cleaned out. I don’t know what usermeta data means….?? or if it’s relevant.

Note…once I get the forum established, set up and the main site tweaked, I am mass emailing my gang to come on over…for now, only a small group of folks are in there…..

??

thanks

Rob

Sorry I might have been jumping the gun. What forum did you migrate from and how?

If you moved from one SP forum to another, the users and usermeta tables contain vital information about users linked to posts.

I just noticed that in the first topic I looked at nobody’s profiles were clickable suggesting that the users didn’t exist any more. I also saw you in the thread, again looking like a user who didn’t exist (but with the same avatar you use here) and I then navigated to the latest post made by you and I could see the post content just fine with just a plain ‘admin’ avatar but the same username.

This would suggest to me that some kind of user information wasn’t imported properly or failed somehow.

If you moved from another SP forum, did you follow the guidelines?

 I migrated over from UBB threads. Frankly, i don’t care about linking the user to posts. The main thing that mattered to me (besides them being able to actually migrate..wow..amazing they did it) was bringing over the core content (tutorials etc)

I am re vamping the actual posting aspect and getting everyone to start fresh, hence no need for users linked to posts….make sense? Do able?

I hired GConverter to migrate. not sure about the guidelines, since it was their gig. It took many weeks, about 7, and was complex, that much I know..

R

I understand what you’re saying about not linking users to posts, but it’s an important step to getting things working.

It’s looking like something is wrong with the database somewhere, as your WP states 12 users but your forum claims to have over 200.

Could you take a look at your database and see how many users there are in the users table? It will have your prefix so ‘xxx_users’.

I have a tech buddy trying to find that info. i have no idea what it is. will send it along asap…thanks…hopefully we’ll figure this out….appreciate it!

Rob

we are interested too… please do let us know… here to try to help too…

This is Kerry – the tech guy Rob talked about.

Currently there are 25 users in the users table which is the same amount reported by the forum software.

Kerry

Hey Kerry,

OK.. Robert gave me details to log in to view a few things and it took me to the WP dashboard. WordPress list 14 users in total, Simple:Press lists 22 members, 2 moderators and 1 admin so 25 as you’ve said.

So there is a bit of a mismatch. Simple:Press doesn’t have unique users, all users are regular WordPress users so the numbers should add up. If the WordPress users don’t exist then you have posts made by people who don’t exist and my guess would be that is playing havoc with things In particular it could be that because the users don’t exist it’s confusing the permissions possibly meaning you have permissions to view the thread but the content is I guess unknown.

This would explain why when Robert views the threads from an admin account he can see the posts, because admins are exempt from permissions.

If the WP users can’t be imported because it’s coming from a non WP based site, they will need to be re-created or the posts will need to be assigned to another user.

so to be clear, if in the db, you look at the wp_users (prefix might be other than wp_), you see 25 entries???  but the wp dashboard for users (wp – users) shows 14?

Well, what I’m seeing reported in WP is 26 users probably more now. I x-refed all of those names with the user tables and they match perfectly.

I’m curious why the posts table only has 61 records in it while the forum is showing posts dated back 2 or 3 years ago.

Is there any way that posts are linked to a foreign table and the permissions on that foreign table are not set for usertype nobs?

Kerry

still confused… three different people have quoted different user numbers…  🙂

so number of rows in wp_users matches number of rows in wp_sfmembers?  and do the user_id in sfmembers, match the ID in wp_users…

guess you only shared site info with Ike as I cannot see the forum page…

have you checked permissions??  make sure the post content is viewable?