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It worked for me. Thanks!

JVerde 1190124168|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks a lot for this info. It worked great for my after one of our "Admin" users deleted the "forum:thread" page.

Re: It worked for me. Thanks!

WhiteKnight82 1190921508|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Good info. I fixed my forum after using the WRONG delete option.

Note to self and others: By all means "move a thread/post to hidden:deleted" but don't use the "delete page" option at the bottom. That's a global thing you want to avoid in the forum.

Thanks so Much!

johnmerritt 1221573689|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

This fixed my bonehead mistakes!

hidden/show

Gunders 1206460954|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

When you move something to the hidden category it seems that the option to 'show' the hidden category is available to anyone ~ How do you remove the 'show' option?

Broken forum

Chris Holmes 1212704674|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi all I have a problem with my forum pages that falls outside of the 'fixes'.
I? have all the pages coded correctly but can not for the life of me work out where the buttons have gone.

Is there a way to delete the forum and start from scratch, I went through the step by step guide to creating the forum and didnt see anywhere to activate it, could this be that it has been activated already.

for those that need to look the forum is at http://rmaa.wikidot.com/rmaa-wiki-forum

any assistance would be appreciated

Cheers

Re: Broken forum

Phil Chett 1212704955|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

You cant start from scratch.

have you set any categories in the forum

http://community.wikidot.com/howto:forum-step-by-step

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Re: Broken forum

Chris Holmes 1212706432|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I have set 1 category but the problem i have is that there are no buttons to allow the users to post anywhere or add new replies
if you go to http://rmaa.wikidot.com/rmaa-wiki-forum you will see what i mean

cheers

Re: Broken forum

Phil Chett 1212707087|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

http://rmaa.wikidot.com/forum:start
this is from your site. there are NO categories
please re-read and follow
http://community.wikidot.com/howto:forum-step-by-step

so that it looks more like
http://psc.wikidot.com/forum:start

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Cam_bang 1215687205|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks a lot!
I fixed my forum at least :)

How do I recover my threads, along with posts?

XIronManX 1218418892|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I have read your page above, it has provided me with better knowledge, but I'm still unfamiliar with this stuff…

Anyways…

My situation is pretty similar, or even exact - I was hoping that you could tell me how to recover all the threads of my forum. The site is lolwiki.wikidot.com

I was browsing the forums, and noticed a thread I didn't want. I proceeded to deleting it. After I deleted it, I tried accessing other threads… The result I got was a page saying "This page does not (yet) exist."

I posted a lot of stuff on, and I was looking to keeping it too, so I need help on recovering it……

Any advice is greatly anticipated and accepted…

Consider this as an urgent S.O.S. with quite a few users waiting for the forums to work again.

Re: How do I recover my threads, along with posts?

Craig Macomber 1218420145|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

You deleted the page, not the thread. Remake the page with the following code:
[[module ForumThread]]

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

(Note: I got that code right from this page!, options, then view source)

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Thanks!

XIronManX 1218465005|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Alright, thanks.

I've fixed the forums :D

Anyways, thanks again. Be sure to visit www.lolwiki.wikidot.com!

Trouble with my Discussion Forum

Tribal Coll Inquiry 1221331517|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

http://osagecollege.wikidot.com/start

I am having a bit of a problem…
when I post a new thread, it does not auto appear under the "Click here to visit our discussion forum. " button, but only under "recent posts". what am i doing wrong?
thanks.

Re: Trouble with my Discussion Forum

Tribal Coll Inquiry 1221332163|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

And when you click on the link, it is blank…

Re: Trouble with my Discussion Forum

Phil Chett 1221333388|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

go to this page :-
http://osagecollege.wikidot.com/forum/t-88825/test

now compare the history between the first and last revisions.
you will see something like…

[[module ForumThread]]

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

the last line is trying to tell you something! :-)))))

to resolve your issues, revert the page back to revision 1.

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Deleted threads (schakelzaken.wikidot.com)

amsmit 1222336956|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi Phil,

I thínk the problem's solved now… Thanks 4 the advise!