Hi!
After I updated to 5.3.4 (from 5.3.1) the pagination links on the bottom of all WP categories and on the main page have disappeared!? If I disable the forum then they return. I guess it’s a conflict with the theme I’m using (Mystique theme) and SP?
How can I fix this?
bottom of wp categories? what do you mean by that? are you referring to category links in the nav menu? category archive pages? or other? sorry, confused…
It’s the links which takes you to the next 20 posts, I don’t know exactly what they’re called but I have them on the bottom of my categories and on my main page, search page etc.
so this is on non forum pages? odd, not sure how SP could impact them since we dont even load forum stuff on non forum pages… are you using any template tags on pages or in the sidebar?
Mr Papa said
so this is on non forum pages? odd, not sure how SP could impact them since we dont even load forum stuff on non forum pages… are you using any template tags on pages or in the sidebar?
Yes on non forum pages!
What do you mean with template tags?
template tags = function call to display forum data outside the forum… such as recent posts…
then quite confused as the forum resources are not even loaded on nonforum pages so not sure how it would interfere…
do you have a link to your site?
okay, thanks… with Andy on vacation, may be tomorrow before I can take a look… or later tonight if things quiet down…
Have you had a moment to look at it? Is there any way to downgrade to previous version so I can activate the forum again? It’s been down for 3 days now 
afraid not… bad timing, but I am sick today and Andy is away on vacation…
why is the forum down? I thought you were just missing pagination???
If you want to downgrade to the earlier version you will need to reload the db with the backup you made before you upgraded as we suggest… there is no way to download the db… well at least normally… what version are you wanting to go back to?
At the moment, quite in the dark as this is a one off occurrence… Perhaps go to forum – integration – page and permalink and try enable the strict wp api option…
Pagination is used a lot on my site, I noticed this problem first when I saw in my stats that pageviews had went down with 40% for the site.
5.3.1 worked perfectly for me but since it took a day or so for me to discover this I would lose forum posts made during that time if I would use the backup
I tried the strict api option but no difference. I tried with the wordpress default theme as well and also there the “next page” pagination disappears when the forum is activated.
Can it be a conflict with another plugin? I’ve tried disabling many of the ones I use but no luck yet.
it could be, but again, the forum plugin isnt really even loaded on non forum pages…
so you are too many versions behind and would have to have a db backup to downgrade…
if you want to test the plugin conflict question, try disabling all of them, not just many… what does the pagination?
I found the conflicting plugin, it was CaPa Protect (http://wordpress.org/plugins/capa/). I’m gonna look if I can find another plugin that does the same job and try with that instead.