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OK, Before I drill down the list of issues I'm having, I have a feeling they're all related, so let me just focus on a few, and maybe fixing those will help me figure out the rest.
Some background: I've had my forum on Mingle, and exported it to a test website, to figure out the bugs before migrating it completely replacing Mingle.
Import
Things seemed to import for the most part, but not everything. On Mingle, I have:
4102 Posts in 747 Topics Made by 192 Members.
After import:
3793 Posts in 716 Topics Made by 191 Members.
Is there a better way for me to ensure everything is imported?
Profiles
I can't click on my user's profiles, when I click on their names nothing comes up. Also, when I try to assign myself to one of the moderator groups, the list of names to move to that group is like half of the real list.
Edit: Another issue that comes up with profiles: I can see my profile, but whenever I click on "Options, Usergroups, Permissions, or Buddies and Adversaries, it takes me to a non-themed page where it is just a blank white page with text at the top left with no margin.
Plugins
I installed all the plugins and can't seem to get them to work. A few examples:
- Watches & Subscribe: the button to watch a thread shows up, I click it, my 'Watching' button still says '0' and is unclickable. Same thing for subscribed posts.
- Private Messaging: after installing, there's no PM button like on your forums here. I clicked my inbox and started creating one manually, and started typing in a name of a registered member and nothing came up. I typed the whole name in and clicked send and it said 'not sent' due to no recipient selected.
- Pot Ratings: installed it, but nothing shows up on the posts. no thumbs.
I'm hoping that I'm just missing something basic and you can help me. Thanks.
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Sounds to me like there are two main issues to resolve and then some pointing in the right direction to be done!
It has been a while since I looked at a Mingle forum database. if there were known errors - then these should have been reported at the end of the import attempt. Did you not get any?
If not - then the main reason for such a disparity - leaving aside failure - is if a topic is orphaned - i.e., does not belong to a forum currently in the database. Then of course all of the posts for those topics get orphaned as well. Now I do recall that not all forums I have worked with actually delete all of the data but I just can not remember whether Mingle is one of them. But could this be the case?
As to your site it sounds rather like a classic case of a jQuery conflict with Wp theme or another plugin. This article explains the problem: http://codex.simple-press.com/.....-conflict/
In most cases this is pretty easy to fix as long as we can find where it is being loaded incorrectly.
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please read through Andy's post - contains lots of good info... and several of the issues seem to point to the jquery conflict...
but as to post ratings, have you enabled post ratings on the forums you want to use it on? edit the forum or forums where you want post ratings and enable... lets you only have it enabled on specific forums...
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Thanks for the reply. I was able to locate the jquery conflict. It was a comment like plugin. Thankfully nothing we really needed. After I removed that, I reinstalled and reimported, and all the data properly imported.
Right now the only issues I can't figure out after being at it all day are:
1. Forum Stats
It's been several hours and the stats arent showing up still in the footer (member stats, forum stats, moderators and administrators). Also, I'd like to remove the field entirely that says 'guest posters' as we will never have any.
2. Avatars
To preface: Our site is a community of gamers that play Minecraft. On our previous forums, we ran this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....t-avatars/
It pulls the person's Minecraft avatar right into wordpress, and Mingle how would I get it to work for SimplePress?
Thanks for the help, and the software. Definitely worth the $40 I forked over 🙂
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1 - deactivate the simple press plugin (do NOT uninstall) and then reactivate it... if there is an issue with the wp cron, that should get it going... may take an hour to populate, but hopefully not...
2 - go to forum - profile - avatars and make the top avatar priority be the wp avatars... then we use the wp avatars instead of ours...
glad we were worth it! 
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whoops... missed the other stats question...
okay, first, we strongly recommend you make your own sp theme before customizing so you dont lose any changes on updates... see: http://codex.simple-press.com/.....g-a-theme/
so now you get a chance to customize your sp theme... in yours, go to the template files directory and edit the spFoot.php template file since the stats appear in the footer... find:
sp_MembershipStats('tagClass=spRight', __sp('Member Stats: '), __sp('Members: %COUNT%'), __sp('Guest Posters: %COUNT%'), __sp('Moderators: %COUNT%'), __sp('Admins: %COUNT%'));
in the stats section of that file... make the first argument be:
tagClass=spRight&pGuestsClass=spInlineSection
that makes the guest posters element hidden...
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Mr Papa said
1 - deactivate the simple press plugin (do NOT uninstall) and then reactivate it... if there is an issue with the wp cron, that should get it going... may take an hour to populate, but hopefully not...2 - go to forum - profile - avatars and make the top avatar priority be the wp avatars... then we use the wp avatars instead of ours...
glad we were worth it!
OK so I deactivated and reactivated the forums 3 times with about 4 hours between each time, and the stats still aren't showing up. Could something else cause this?
As far as the avatars- thanks, that fixed it!
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Possibly means that your server is not allowing the cron tasks to operate at all.
(Steve: is this possible?)
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that would be my take... wp cron is not running... can you confirm? or deny?
a way to test would be to schedule a wp post for the future - say 5 minutes... and see if the post is ever made... be sure to visit your site after the five minutes as site traffic triggers the wp cron...
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How many cron jobs does Simple press use? I know I only have a certain amount available (Godaddy), but I will say, before I fixed that jquery conflict, when SP imported from Mingle (although not all content) the stats showed up then. So I wonder, how many cron jobs does the whole thing take up? If its just 1 then I can't see it being that, because it worked before.
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