Comments for page "Forums : Fixing Them"

Re: Removing an extra return in the 5 forum pages led to success

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:18:51 +0000

I was thinking about this problem earlier today.

It would be relatively simple to make an app that does exactly this because of the Wikidot API… you give it the category, and it goes through and re-saves every page without changing anything. It'd be faster than doing it manually as well.

Re: Removing an extra return in the 5 forum pages led to success

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:47:53 +0000

This may be a transient caching problem. I noticed today that updates to live templates were not resulting in changes to pages until the pages were edited. If I am right it's just editing and saving them that is needed, you don't actually need to change anything.

Removing an extra return in the 5 forum pages led to success

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:10:35 +0000

I didn't have any luck spotting tihs fix elsewhere, so thought I'd add it here.

I activated a forum for the first time and couldn't get it to work. All the 5 pages existed, and permissions were all default (so presumably correct).

As soon as I went through and edited each of the 5 forum pages, my forum started working.
The edit I made: removing the extra line between each of the modules (for example the module [[module ForumStart]] , and the note about [!— dont edit this page if you want it to work….]

Re: Forum exploded =P

Tue, 11 May 2010 08:45:14 +0000

you have more than likely deleted something that you shouldn't.
Go through the steps above.
if that doesn't help, then send me an invitation to your site and i will gladly have a look.

Forum exploded =P

Fri, 07 May 2010 08:05:58 +0000

I am fairly certain I mistakenly deleted something while intending to delete a post/category. I've since read this thread and ensured that the 5 required pages are existing and the code inside is correct.

Now, when I go to Forums I can see my categories, # of posts, who last posted etc. Clicking on one of the categories to look at the posts inside displays "This page has not been created yet"… The actual forum posts still exist - as when I click "Jump!" or "Show Recent Posts" it will display the posts.

Not sure how to fix this.

looks as if its fine

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:59:04 +0000

groups
Categories
threads
posts

I know this is a bit confusing
You have set up a number of "groups" in admin:manage.
What you haven't done is set up categories within those groups.
Once you have done that, then you will be able to add threads.

Then it will look a bit more like this:-
http://community.wikidot.com/forum:start

If after adding some categories you are still having probs, then please change the permissions for the forum so that i can at least see the source code.

PS: the only reference required in the top bar is forum and recent post

forum:recent-posts
forum:start

remove all other the others.

I am going crazy

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:42:06 +0000

Did everything here still my forum doesn't work could you please look at the address what is wrong? I checked all the pages created categories etc.

https://torontoturk.wikidot.com/test

Re: Ok, I guess I'm missing something. What?

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:14:49 +0000

If you have the page editor open, don't go anywhere else without first pressing Cancel or Save or you do risk a page lock (although you can see who has locked the page and if itr is you then you can cancel the lock).

You mentioned editing the Forum: Start page - it's best not until you are very comfortable with wiki syntax and what different modules do. If you happen to delete the module on that page it will make your forum unusable, at least temporarily until you put the module back.

Rob

Re: Ok, I guess I'm missing something. What?

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:33:15 +0000

I never saw that, until I saw your email and tried again. So, what did I miss? I'm in tech, and I know I get cocky some times, but please, take me down a peg!

One possibility: timing/locks expiring. I do have a habit of clicking edit to see the page's source, then just clicking somewhere else/changing the URL directly. Once when I did this, I got told a page I revisited was locked by another user, etc.

Re: Ok, I guess I'm missing something. What?

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:32:51 +0000

Your forum is working OK. I clicked forum in the side bar which took me to Forum Categories - you have 3 set up. Then when I clicked on one of those, for example I release, it took me to the page where I could click the button to create a new thread within the I release category. I couldn't create the a thread to test it as you haven't opened up the permissions to allow non-members to do so, but it does seem to be working as it should.

Rob

Re: Ok, I guess I'm missing something. What?

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:08:17 +0000

Wow, thanks! It's public.

Re: Ok, I guess I'm missing something. What?

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:05:34 +0000

As your site is private we can't see what's happening. Would you temporarily make it public please so we can have a look.

Rob

Ok, I guess I'm missing something. What?

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:57:05 +0000

Here's the SAVED forum structure to prove I have both a group and three categories (heck, I closed the browser & logged back in to get this)

@@Thoughts of…
What are we thinking about?
edit |hide | delete |add category | move up | move down
I am grateful for
(among other things..)
number of threads: 0
maximum nesting level: default forum nesting (2)
edit | delete | move up | move down
I need a kick in the butt to
What are we close to doing?
number of threads: 0
maximum nesting level: default forum nesting (2)
edit | delete | move up | move down
I release
What no longer has any power over us?
number of threads: 0
maximum nesting level: default forum nesting (2)
edit | delete | move up | move down@@

I also followed Phil's Quick forum fixing guide and all the pages are unedited but do exist.

I followed http://community.wikidot.com/howto:forum-step-by-step#toc5 line by line, three times.

Don't tell me it's really easy! Here's the page: http://wednesday2009.wikidot.com/admin:manage

but http://wednesday2009.wikidot.com/forum:start
shows nothing.

when I edit the above, it shows:

[[module ForumStart]]
[!-- please do not alter this page if you want to keep your forum working --]

Thanks for any help!

Solved.

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:22:22 +0000

Ah, I found it. It was a setting in 'structure'. Thanx again, gentlemen.:)

Re: Hi

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:55:47 +0000

Hi Rob,

In fact I read that but I'll do it again if you think the answer is there. Alle I need to know is how to chance the settings from hidden to not hidden. Lemme have another look.:) Thnx so far. Maybe I get back to you to invite you to admin 4 me.:) thnx so far

Daphne.

Re: Hi

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:51:21 +0000

Thank you for your reply, Graphmastur. :) I'm not new at wikidot, BTW, I'm just.., well… very Dutch. It takes me a lot of time to figure the tutorails out. But I still love wikidot, of course.:)

Yeah, I checked the sitemanager but the problem is I that cannot find how to chance the settings from hidden to not hidden. There doesn't seem to be a choice. I checked it over and over again and I see no options there. It looks like this to me:

ik begrijp er niets van:)

(I don't understand anything), yet.

Re: Hi

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:11:24 +0000

You might have already done this, but have a read of http://community.wikidot.com/howto:forums-fixing-them which should put you on the right path.

If all else fails, invite one of the community admins (Phil Chett, helmuti_pdorf or me for example) to be a temporary admin of your site and we'll fix it for you.

Rob

Re: Hi

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:33:27 +0000

You have already created a forum thread here, so there is no real reason to double post.

Okay, so did you check your site manager, to check to see if you put the forum categories in the hidden section?

Welcome to wikidot! ;-)

Hi

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:47:34 +0000

My forum is hidden and I have no idea how to fix it. If I click 'show hidden' the forum is visible for a short time. As soon as I leave the forum and return, it is hidden again. I've been trying to fix it for two days now. I cannot find the reason why it is hidden. Can someone please explain to me how I can make the forum permanent visble?:):)

Re: Categories

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:38:10 +0000

Thanks! A quick solution to fix my forum *#$%-up in less than 10 minutes after a Google search. You guys are great!