Forums : Fixing Them

The following has not been fully tested. I'm hoping someone who has managed to break their forums, use this, and let us know if it works! (please?)

Avoiding &^%$ Ups

From bitter experience i have learnt that it is relatively easy to render your forums inoperable. As have others!
The cause of this is usually because you have deleted something that you shouldn't.

Deleting POSTS does not cause any problems but deleting THREADS may, and deleting Categories can almost certainly lead to disaster.

Have a look in Site Manager » Forum & discussion » Structure

However you have set up your forum you will have a HIDDEN Category
In there is a deleted threads section.
MOVE unwanted Categories to the Hidden section
MOVE unwanted Threads to the deleted section

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Oops! too late: The FIX

Look in "List all pages"
There should be the following pages required to have a working Forum

1. Forum Categories
2. Forum Category
3. Forum Thread
4. New Forum Thread
5. Recent Threads
6. Recent Forum Posts

If any of these are missing or corrupt, then they need replacing/re-coding.

Re-create page

Forum Categories.

This should have a page re-created called

forum:start

The title should read

Forum Categories

and the code inside should be

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

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Forum Category

This should have a page re-created called

forum:category

The title should read

Forum Category

and the code inside should be

[[module ForumCategory]]

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

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New Forum Thread

This should have a page re-created called

forum:new-thread

The title should read

New Forum Thread

and the code inside should be

[[module ForumNewThread]]

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

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Forum Thread

This should have a page re-created called

forum:thread

The title should read

Forum Thread

and the code inside should be

[[module ForumThread]]

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

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Recent Threads

This should have a page re-created called

forum:recent-threads

The title should read

Recent Threads

and the code inside should be

[[module RecentThreads]]

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

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Recent Forum Posts

This should have a page re-created called

forum:recent-posts

The title should read

Recent Forum Posts

and the code inside should be

[[module RecentPosts]]

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

After re- creating the missing pages, your forums should now start to work again……
i hope :))
Authors

Phil Chett. Please visit his/her userPage.

Comments

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.

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?