so you need to try different combinations of display in loop and multiple display on forum – integration – page and permalink…

sp uses the wp the_content hook for displaying its content… it should only be used to display content in the loop… unfortunately some themes and plugins use it for displaying incorrectly…  it can be scanned multiple times but only output once…  so you have something incorrectly displaying the_content (which is the wp page content) multiple times…

those two options I mentioned are an attempt to deal with these misbehaving themes or plugins…

I created a template for the forums and stripped it down to parade rest.

<?php/*
Template Name: Forums
*/?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php the_content(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?

Does that eliminate anything? 

I have also tried every combination of the following:

• Filter WP list pages
• Limit forum display to within WP loop
• Allow multiple loading of forum content
• Load javascript in footer

Most combinations won’t show the forum at all.

unfortunately, not really…  but see that the_content(), that is supposed to be used for displaying page content… it looks like you have a plugin using it for other…

the list pages and javascript in footer wont affect this – just the other two…

and of course, I assume you actually edited the wp page the forum is on and changed it to use this new template?

couple other things you can do to narrow it down…

temp switch to the default wp theme and see if better…

if not, then disable your other wp plugins and see if better…  then enable one by one until it breaks… then we can work the conflict…

Yes, I changed the page to use that template. 

Great advice. 🙂 I had already disabled 1/2 the plugins to see, but not all.

Turns out it was a plugin. Jeeesh…. Simple Facebook Connect.  Guess I will have to find another plugin for getting posts to the facebook fan page.

Thanks. Now to monkey with formatting since my theme is running havoc on the way the themes display.

interesting… we have some folks that use simple facebook connect… is it the latest? might search here for it and see what was done… I do remember some settings that had to be used…

https://simple-press.com/support-forum/simplepress-version-4-3-0/simple-press-and-simple-facebook-connect/#p98722

says it has the fix…   works for simple facebook or twitter…

Thanks. I appreciate that. 

While I have you on the horn, do you have any resources on how to, without messing up other parts of the site, monkey with the CSS to make the forum display as intended inside my theme?

Thanks again.

I would highly recommend using firefox with the firebug addon… it lets you inspect any css and make changes right on the page so you can try before you buy…

I would also highly suggest you make your own sp theme rather than modifying ours so you wont lose changes on upgrades… see this for help:  http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/themes/theme-basics/creating-a-theme/

We are just starting to populate the codex for 5.0…

So this forum we’re in right now is default theme right?

I can not figure out where my fonts are getting changed to be so much smaller. 🙁

I created an alternate header that creates a stripped down, alternate css file and I can’t get the fonts to get bigger. I even removed all CSS from that alternative CSS file and while it jacks the formating of the WP theme, the forums stay the same.

>>> http://aximsite.com/forum

Also, that fix for Facebook Connect only seems to work for the earlier version. 

yes, this is the default theme… its base font is inherited from your wp theme (12px)… and is a percentage of that… so if you wp theme has a small font, you may want to edit the sp theme and increase its base font – your own sp theme of course…

or add in the sp font resize plugin so folks can adjust as they want…