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@Giiyom,

Ok. Finally able to get to the bottom of the issue. Here are the very technical details and feel free to pass this on to the forum plugin thread you mentioned.

When Chat loads itself it registers a callback function on the 'init' action. It is within this init function where it then calls the WP function get_avatar();.

When Simple:Press(SP) loads it registers a filter callback function to filter the contents by the get_avatar() WP function. See file sp-load-code.php line 239. When Chat calls the get_avatar() WP function the SP filter function is eventually called. This is turn causes SP to load other PHP files one of which is sp-load-forum.php. On line 61 of that file is a check for the value of the variable $spIsForum. If that variable is TRUE then the processing continues and the forum output is displayed.

The problem is the variable $spIsForum is not set to true until a much later step within the SP plugin. At some later time there is another WP action executed 'wp'. This action causes the SP function sp_is_forum_page() to be called. It is in this function where the variable $spIsForum is finally set to TRUE.

So the problem is that when/if the get_avatar() function is called before the SP plugin has initialized itself.

The other real issue is how the file sp-load-forum.php is included. In PHP they use a loader function include_once() which rightly named will prevent the file from being loaded into memory more than once. This is the proper technique.

The issue here then is that the first time the file is loaded during the get_avatar() processing the variable is still set to FALSE. So later then the 'wp' action callback is executed and the file is NOT loaded because is already has from the get_avatar() filter step. The process to actually load the forum output is not run.

Related to the include_once() loading of the file is how the code is setup. The code is such that when the file is loaded the PHP code is executed. This is normally fine. But in this case the code is run on the initial load. When the second time comes around and since the file is not loaded again the forum code is not executed again. The better approach would be to get away from the inline PHP code and wrap it in a function. Then during both places you can just call the function to load the forum output.

As far as I can tell this is not related to Chat.

Hi Paul,

Wow ok

And If I just disable the SP avatar thing it should work I guess?

But I will let them know about it.

Huge thanks Paul !

But Paul, what did you change exactly? Cause it's working fine now?
Did you change the Avatar setting?

@Giiyom,

For now I left the chat plugin NOT calling the get_avatar function in the early stage. So this will for now let the Simple:Press and Chat coexist. But the next update of Chat will correct that.