What do you mean by ‘nothing in the options’?
and did you actually activate the linking plugin?

sure i activated it 😉 what i was talking about are the options in the wysiwyg-editor as you can see on the screenshot. before the update there was an option within the wysiwyg-editor to manually add link from post to forum etc

plugin stopped posting link to forum. same setting as before

No – we have never defined a tinymce button to do that.

there definitly was an option! as far as i don’t use the older sp anymore i had to search for a picture.

that’s what i’m talking about! this is missing and no topics are generated.

Well firstly that little form has nothing to do with the WYSIWYG editor. What I said was there never was an option on the editor for this and that is correct. There never has been.

The form you are referring to is still there just the same as it always was. If you are not seeing then I can think of three possible reasons.

One – on the blog linking admin options panel you do not have the option checked to show the forum in posts.

Two – it is being hidden by the posts page so take a look in the ‘screen options’ at the top to make sure.

Three – there may be another plugin also creating a component on the edit posts page that is in conflict in some way.

But it is most likely one of the first two.

those are my settings, as they were before and after the update. all worked until the update to sp5

problem solved!

I guess that means you have turned it on! Hope it’s all Ok now.

I just upgraded to v5. I must say it’s more confusing. I’m having a terrible time getting this blog linking sorted. It used to work effortlessly. I’ve made a directory and installed the blog-linking folder. I’ve activated the plugin. I’ve set the settings so I DO see the linking option inside the post page…however…although it SAYS i’ve created a forum link, one doesn’t actually show up.

There is no link to the forum discussion at the bottom of the post (like there used to be).

When I select the button to view the forum post from within the post backend, I get this message:

Access denied – you do not have permission to view this page

Assistance would be greatly appreciated.

the blog linking itself is mostly unchanged and works the same…  its just in plugin form… and the options and implementation are the same…

made a directory?  what do you mean?

thus far, we have no other reports of problems with blog linking so we need to understand what might be going on with your site…  can you post an image of your forum – components – blog linking options panel with your options?  and a link to your site please for a blog post and the corresponding forum topic…

Well, when you upgrade the blog linking feature is suddenly gone.

So I had to figure out that I needed to download it from your download page.

But then, where to put it?

I had to create a folder named “forum-plugins” inside the folder “resources”. In that folder (directory) I placed the unzipped “blog-linking” folder that I downloaded.

Then I activated it and in the options I checked everything off. So I see the

Are there specific instructions somewhere I’m missing?

Here are screenshots:

Looks good, right? But then this (when you select “view topic in forum”):

that is wrong location…  unless you changed the default location on forum – integration – storage locations…  but even so, that is a bad place to put them as they will be lost when you upgrade simple press as the wp updater removes the current plugin before updating…

by default, they are stored in:

wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins

you really want to store them somewhere out side of the plugins/simple-press for the reason I stated above…

sorry, the images look bit out of alignment with the text…  you are getting the access denied when clicking on the link in the wp blog post?

if so,what is the url for the link?  how does it compare to the actual url for the topic?  curious because I see single quotes in the title and wondering if that might be throwing it off (it shouldnt but might be bug if so)…  can you try a post title without the quotes? I will test with them here…

if you could provide a link to the blog post, I can check myself and see if any odd encoding…

Thanks. Couple things, though:

1. There is no link in the blog post. Although it says there is one, I had to manually create one b/c it doesn’t actually generate one:

http://lessons.bobreynoldsmusic.com/rhythm-changes-01/

2. Upon upgrade/installation, this directory does not exist (for me): wp-content/sp-resources/

So that’s why I created a directory inside “simple-press/resources”

And yes, I did change the default location to match where I put the plugin folder, b/c, like I mentioned, that “sp-resources” folder did not exist.

Strange. I’m sure it’s something simple (no pun intended) in the end. It always is.

OK, I’ve updated the location of the plugins.

They are now in:

http://lessons.bobreynoldsmusic.com/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins/

Here is what happens:

1. I create a blog post.

2. At bottom of post I check the boxes to create a forum topic.

3. I publish the post.

4. I visit the post but no such link has been created.

5. I return to the edit post screen and hit the “view topic in forum” button

6. I am greeted with that error/no access message (see screen shot above)

7. I leave the edit post screen and then return to it. This time, the forum link boxes are unchecked, as if I’m starting over and had never created a link the first time.

(Please note, visiting the post in question right now you will see a link to the forum, but I created both the matching forum post and the link from the blog manually.)

http://lessons.bobreynoldsmusic.com/rhythm-changes-01/

no worries that it was not created… some server setups wont allow us permission to do so…  the page you are directed to after upgrade/installation would alert you and say it manually needs to be created..

but you really need to move them out of the plugin or else they will get overwritten by WP on upgrade to the plugin…

I get the same result whether I visit from the discussion link or your forum itself…  or any of your forum topic links…

out of curiosity, I see you are running the yoast seo plugin…  can you check and see that the ‘convert ugly permalinks’ option or something like that is disabled?