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I determined that the extra Search box below the header, above the forums/topics (only on bbPress pages) was generated by the ‘Search bbPress 2.0’ plugin and called from the ‘bbPress (Twenty Eleven)’ child theme from ServerPress.com. By editing the theme’s bbPress.php file and toggling between the child and parent themes (caching cleared and off), I was able to toggle it on and off and see that it had no effect on the custom sidebars (on MAMP server or production). I set it all active again on production.
Then I updated bbPress from 2.1.2 to 2.2.2, and that blew out the custom sidebars; they now refuse to appear on any of the bbPress pages on production. Trying the same theme toggling noted above, changing the pages hosting forum content from one template to another, changing the forum object that was supposed to trigger the sidebar, nothing works any more. I give up. It probably was an accident that it worked before, based on the order that the plugins were installed – yours was the last, originally. I’ll keep it in place to put all of the links on the Forums page, which is a plain text page not a bbPress page.
Last night I manually replaced the plugin files from production (that was in the missing post) to the MAMP server and that made no difference.
I had to delete 1.1.2 before 1.1.1 would install (folder already exists error), which also deleted the sidebars. I reimported them, and the problem is still there.
I got mad and backed production up to file, and went ahead and updated your plugin. The sidebars are still appearing correctly on the forum and topic pages.
It must be something that I did to the pages that I use for the forums that hides the Search box, that also makes it possible for the widgets with the sidebars to appear. I’ll have to look at home tonight for evidence that I edited something at the file level.
I posted three paragraphs of reply here shortly after your post, but it obviously lost that content instead of saving it when I hit Post. Nice!
The rules for the Forum List sidebar are the same as for the others.
I loaded all of the plugins and content on a ServerPress.com DesktopServer installation (new) on my work iMac, and loaded all of the content from production. I still see the same disparity between production and the test site. When I compare the source of the same page on each server, the #secondary .widget-area appears just above the footer on the page that is working, and some sort of entry-content appears on the page that is not working.
Also noted that the pages that don’t work have the Search box on them (top right). Maybe that has something to do with it.
Screen shots sent separately by email.
All plugins but Content Aware Sidebars are at the same version and mix; I even did an export from production, import to the MAMP server, and cleanup of duplicate objects to make sure all content was up to date.
The only thing that I can think of now is that maybe the changes to your css file conflict with the css file from ServerPress.com in the child theme (bbPress (Twenty Eleven)), which is the active theme on both servers. The conflict is only on the two pages that are full width, which forces the custom sidebar to be below the forum content (which is fine with me); the page that has a main sidebar on the right has continued to work properly – it is replaced by the custom sidebar.
I have not updated bbPress from 2.1.3 to 2.2.x yet since it has had its own series of problems with that update, and I only want to change one plugin at a time.
That did the trick – the Sidebars menu is hidden to the user who could see it before. BTW, that user had Contributor rights, not Subscriber, but that is still too low a level to be allowed near a plugin control. Somewhere in my testing of bbPress forums I must have upgraded their rights to Contributor. So your code update sets the required permission level to ‘edit_theme_options’ which is only held by the Administrator Role, correct?
Thanks!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Twenty Twelve] [Theme: Twenty Twelve] nav bar fails in IE8Getting IE9 out of compatibility mode fixes the menus, but nothing appear to be able to fix them for IE 7 and 8. The code mentioned above was not helpful, when inserted into header.php several different ways. Since the entire purpose of moving our website to WordPress from Mickysoft Publisher 2003 was the lack of support for their proprietary menus – in that case by IE 8 and IE 9 (IE 7 worked, as did Safari and Firefox), delivering a new website with a known menu compatibility problem will not be acceptable.
I switched my site back to Twenty Eleven and the menus work in every browser that I have available to test with – IE 7 thru 9 (compatibility mode on OR off), Safari, and Firefox (Mac and Win). I’ll revisit Twenty Twelve if the menus get fixed, but not before; I already wasted several days on technical issues that should have been spent on content (which is the whole point). Thanks for clarifying why I was having problems after activating Twenty Twelve..
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Twenty Twelve] [Theme: Twenty Twelve] nav bar fails in IE8I’m afraid that any application that is released today that does not support today’s technology (that would be IE9) is a mistake. Usually I have these discussions with people pushing out apps that ONLY work in IE9 and leave Safari and Firefox out to dry. I understand dropping support for outdated browsers, but IE9 is NOT outdated, and cannot be treated as such.
The acid test is that the Twenty Twelve menus do not work properly in IE9, therefore they must be considered defective – and that needs to be corrected – fast!
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: [Twenty Twelve] [Theme: Twenty Twelve] nav bar fails in IE8What a _wonderful_ introduction to WordPress…NOT! I guess I figured wrong that the latest theme would be the best place to start. I have only had a hosted system to learn on for a couple of weeks, but I had not seen this kind of an error.
Since I see the same incredibly bad menu behavior on all of the Windows 7 machines with IE9 that I have access to (several counting the VMs), in addition to the older machines/Vms with BOTH IE7 and IE8, so this is a failure to support Internet Explorer properly at all. With a menu that inludes many pages and child pages, IE displays my menu as a 25-item vertical list! That is simply not usable.
http://www.genealogydentontexas.org/Yes it works fine in Safari and Firefox, which tripped me up since I was developing mostly on iMacs, but the vast majority of the genealogists my web site will serve use Windows XP through 7 and don’t install third party browsers. I need some sort of a hack to fix this, or I not only need to dump the theme (which I have been waiting for since nothing else I looked at seemed to fit my needs), but maybe WordPress as well.
Somebody please help me out here – someone who has actually fixed this bug successfully. We cannot go live with the site behaving like this! I have pulled the plug on enterprise application deployments over less severe problems than this.
End Rant – sorry – been awake for several nights doing this after 3 days of ITIL certification training – not a healthy combination.