No, not really… do you have any plugin that is customizing the login page? they often get greedy and change the background for any page has a login form on them…
you might turn off the captcha plugin and see if that helps with the background and combined css cache… I did just fix an issue in how it was adding stuff to the combined cache… but havent seen it have that kind of effect…
I don’t have the captcha plugin installed. I actually deleted it yesterday after noticing the problem, along with a dozen other plugins. Right now I have the following plugins activated:
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see image… definitely a captcha plugin running…
are you running any caching plugins??
think I might have mis posted… helping two others right now and think I mixed topics… sorry…
It just happened again (even with the combined cache option turned off). When I’m logged in, the forum background is white. But when I’m logged out, it’s black. When the background turns black (when I’m logged out), try clicking on any of the topic links in blue there and the next page will have a white background again. It’s just the “/forum” page that changes color. So I don’t think it has anything to do with the login form.
here, try it out:
www.filmgamesetc.com/forum
not sure what you mean by customize the login form… do you have another plugin (or your wp theme) that is trying to deliver a custom login form was the question… If so, its probably being overly greedy and try to customize the wp login form inside the forum… would be three ways to fix… one, fix the plugin/theme… two, remove the plugin/theme… three, remove the inline login form in the forum header… obviously, we can help with number three if you like… it would just replace the inline login form with a link to the wp login page…
FilmGames Etc said
It just happened again (even with the combined cache option turned off). When I’m logged in, the forum background is white. But when I’m logged out, it’s black. When the background turns black (when I’m logged out),
Your WP-Super-Cache is caching your forum pages. You should put /forum/ in the pages to be ignored section. Then delete the saved cache.
how do I do this? Where can I put /forum/ in the pages to be ignored section?
Brandon C said
FilmGames Etc said It just happened again (even with the combined cache option turned off). When I’m logged in, the forum background is white. But when I’m logged out, it’s black. When the background turns black (when I’m logged out),
Your WP-Super-Cache is caching your forum pages. You should put /forum/ in the pages to be ignored section. Then delete the saved cache.
I followed your advice and deleted the cache from WP Super-Cache plugin and now the forum background is white again! (even when I’m logged out!). So I found this little section under the “Advance” tab of the WP-Super-Cache setting that says:
“Add here strings (not a filename) that forces a page not to be cached. For example, if your URLs include year and you dont want to cache last year posts, it’s enough to specify the year, i.e. ’/2004/’. WP-Cache will search if that string is part of the URI and if so, it will not cache that page.”
I added /forum/ to the box there. Hope this will do it.
Thanks!
You found it. Good deal. That should remove the forum page from being cached.
Hate to say this, but clearing/deleting cache doesn’t work. My forum screen is still turning black after I log out of wordpress (it’s fine as long as I’m still logged in).
Sorry – a bit of a rushed reply… Have you actually stopped your cache plugin from caching the SP page?
Yes I have. I dumped all my caches both from the WP super cache and my browser.
It looks like it is not loading the theme’s overlay file. Can you try with the CSS-only theme? If you don’t have it you can get it here. https://simple-press.com/download-themes/ If it works that will help narrow it down to an overlay loading issue.