Thanks, Stephen, this is an excellent start! Really appreciate it.
Some days, I really wish developers would expose everything in a neatly correlated database with generous descriptions, perhaps even with forum entries that relate to those individual code items and descriptions, plus code examples… What a beautiful world that would be!
Anyways, enough dreaming… I’ll take a look at what you suggested.
I have Genesis 2 and a responsive child theme. In my case, the forum index is working, but I, too, get this mysterious image thumbnail and cannot – for the life of me – figure out why it’s appearing. I looked at the code on the page and tracked down the image in my media library but have no idea where the instructions to display it on the page are coming from. If you ever figure it out, please let me know!
If it’s any help, the index appears to be using an ‘archive’ css of some kind. I am wondering if there was a setting at some time to have an image header that has since been deprecated in my theme but has resulted in errant code haunting me?
I am having the same problem with bbPress 2.4.
In my case, I am also using buddypress (1.8.1) with Group forums.
The interplay between hidden groups in bbPress and buddypress hidden groups is a bit confusing. Buddypress allows for granular membership levels in its Group forums (for unlimited and different sets of members), whereas bbPress does not (only three levels of membership). This appears to be wreaking havoc with my security settings. For example, anything posted in a buddypress hidden forum is appearing in my sitewide activity – even to non-logged in members. I suspect this may have something to do with the conflict I describe above (because the bbPress forum is ‘Public’, even though the buddypress Group is ‘hidden’).
I look forward to a fix soon.
