I’m afraid we have the same problem but we are using the standard Reboot theme.
Add Reply and Add Topic don’t function at all. It’s a big deal for us as we don’t do code!
Our Hosting company had to restore from previous night’s backup. Site was down way too long.
Any ideas?
Well, 1st are you running the Avada theme? If so then the solution linked above is a matter of being able to use ftp to replace a few files. No coding.
If its not Avada, then you need to find the problem first.
If it is not this problem with Avada then the only way we could help diagnose your problem would be with the site up and running. There are no known issues with adding/editing posts and, as you witness yourself, it is working fine on this site using the same code as you have.
But the first question that always has to be asked in these circumstances is – was anything else updated other than WordPress -> 4.5 and Simple:Press -> 5.6.5 ? When these buttons fail to work it is always down to a scripting conflict of some kind that is killing the running of scripts on your site. This usually means that all component updates need to be reviewed – WordPress theme – other WordPress plugins etc.
WordPress and Simple:Press were both updated as were associated plugins and themes.
That produced the problem so we asked the Host to restore from backup.
Subsequently, we attempted JUST the WordPress update which yielded the exact same result. No ‘New Topic’ and no ‘Reply’ functionality.
Have no idea how to progress – we were forced to restore again!
So if you updated no other components one possibility is something you are running now that is incompatible with WordPress 4.5. Is it possible to have a link to your forum page. At least I can look to see if there is anything really obvious or known I can spot.
Yellow Swordfish said
So if you updated no other components one possibility is something you are running now that is incompatible with WordPress 4.5. Is it possible to have a link to your forum page. At least I can look to see if there is anything really obvious or known I can spot.
www.dwpexamination.org – take a look
As I suspected. Nothing there pops out as being in the slightest bit doubtful or suspect. Nice and clean, simple website by the looks of it. Makes a nice change actually.
We can’t really offer any help unless we can witness the problem in action but I suspect it might have been a simple matter of clearing caches. Browsers often hand on to scripts far longer than is good for them and it is possible this caused a problem as scripts within both WordPress and Simple:Press have changed.
So you think clearing Safari or Chrome caches on the Mac would solve it?
Not sure about iPad and phone as they displayed the same problem.
Maybe we have to somehow coordinate things so you can witness the problem?
(Thanks for the compliment by the way ?)
Your theme is likely broken by wp 4.5 because of the jquery update as well, your theme authors just don’t know it yet. See this thread where script suddenly stopped working for people:
http://cyberchimps.com/forum-topic/slideshow-not-working/
You should post there and give them the avada link above, have them make the change.
You can confirm this is the problem by switching themes to the WordPress twenty fifteen theme. If it works with that theme, diagnosis is officially made.
Ya, I think on any of these you have to rule out the theme first. I’m pretty sure this is going to break a ton of webpages out there – but it’s so subtle people may not notice right away.
Hi, We are having the same issue and are complete nubes. http://www.stsw.org/members/forum/test-forum/ Can provide temp login and pass with private email. Hope you can help us. 🙂 Thanks!
Hey stsw,
If your problem is genuinely the same, then please refer to post #24. If this is the case there’s not a lot we can do, although as Emmet Brown said you can try switching to a default theme – If that fixes the problem you know where to start!
Reverted back to my old artisteer theme and the same problem.Can’t post a new topic or reply to an existing one.
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