Simple forum?

[Mew]

Hello. I’m sure this has been asked tons of times (search function for this site rarely gives any results for anything) but I was wondering if there were any simple to use forums that are made specifically for WP. I’ve seen something before but I think it needed extensive editing of WP code or something in order to work. I could be wrong since I don’t remember too much about it.

I’m just looking for something where I can create different forums/categories and then threads will be in those categories. (Similar to phpBB, I suppose, but only with simple functionality.)

I’m running the latest version of WordPress, btw. Thanks!

[Kafkaesqui]

http://www.xdweb.net/index.php?page=12

[darkpro]

http://bbpress.org/

[Mew]

I’m trying out xdforum since it looks easier to integrate. I’ve installed it but it doesn’t seem to really get along with my template. I’m using the Green Marinee template. The footer is being displayed right below the forum instead of at the very bottom of the page, and my page links are not showing up in the sidebar. It looks like the forum is being inserted above the sidebar.

Any ideas?

[spencerp]

Can we have a link to the blog/forum in question please? People might be able to help you better if we had a link..thanks.. =)

spencerp

This allows others to be able to view the source of the blog/site as well as the CSS files and so forth, to be able to help pin point the problem at hand.

[Mew]

Eh heh, was a little reluctant about that. Don’t let the title scare you, it’s nothing bad.

http://as.crosswithyou.net/?a=xdforum

I don’t know what I did but the sidebar doesn’t seem to be pushed down anymore, but the page links that are supposed to be under “Navigation” still don’t show up.

In my sidebar, the code to call for the links is:

<div id="pages">
<h3><?php _e('Navigation'); ?></h3>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_pages('exclude=7,8&sort_column=menu_order&title_li='); ?> </ul>
</div>

PS I don’t know but after a while, the page seems to shorten to under where the footer is being incorrectly displayed. In the “Post New Topic” page, the place where you type the post is too wide. I went into the functions.php of the plugin and changed the texarea cols to be smaller but that doesn’t seem to change it?

[spencerp]

Thanks for posting the url, and no I’m not at all offended or anything by the title.. I came up worse stuff that then on my blog already lmao!

Anyways..just looking at the page with the forum, it appears to be a “possible” <div> problem perhaps.. like maybe you don’t have a closing </div> some where or something.. =/

Also, take a gander through the 28 page errors once, and maybe you can pin point the problem for sure. =)

I gotta get offline for awhile and take care of the kids, but I’ll be back on a little later..maybe in the meantime someone can help you with it better or something.. I have never tried using that forum software before..sigh.

spencerp

[Mew]

ACK! I just noticed that the page links don’t show up on any of the pages, not just the forum.

Anyway, I tried adding in an extra </div> on the xdforumtemplate.php and the footer is back in its place. Kinda weird since I remember trying this ealier. ^^;

Now is the problem with my page links. It’s not showing up on anything. The W3C page says at the bottom that it doesn’t see anything for the page links. Just <ul> and </ul>. =(

And on the Post New Thread page, the forum shows up all the way at the bottom. I’m also wondering why on the specific forum page, the text at the top is rather bunched together.

Ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

PS Just wanna clear up that it’s “aural” and not “oral,” haha. The site’s for voice actors, hence the title. =P

EDIT: Okay, about the page links in the sidebar, it has got something to do with xdcforum inserting itself into it. I noticed that if I took out the arguments in <?php wp_list_pages(); ?> it shows up, but there’s a stray bullet which messes things up.

[Mew]

Hrm… I tried fooling around with it a bit. I deactivated the plugin and edited xdforum.php. I removed the areas near the bottom where they add a filter or something like that. Reuploaded the file and activated the plugin. No problem with the page links afterwards but I get some other error that says it’s from WP’s functions.php file. *sigh*

I think it’s because the links that the forum inserts in the menu has some child links. I’ve found out that child links are displayed improperly in the Green Marinee template, which is why everything needs to be set to no parent. Is there a way I can have ONLY the forum link displayed and nothing under that? I assume it shows where you are in the forum or something in the sidebar, and this is what’s causing the problem.

EDIT: Okay, problem solved. I found out that if I set “Create Page Links” to No in the settings, it doesn’t insert the page links. ^^;

Still have a prob with the form showing up at the bottom on the Post New Thread page though.

[andrewgreer]

I’ve had the same problem, with a different template (modern). Exactly what lines did you edit? I’d love to be able to set up a simple forum, but can’t seem to do it without destroying my menu bar. Many thanks!
Andrew

[Mew]

Hey. Check out the xdforum help forum at http://www.xdweb.net/wordpress/?a=xdforum

I posted under “Mew” there and you can see the replies I received. Very helpful. ^^ I hope things work out for you too!