Driving me a bit crazy this, I have BBpress widgets showing. When I click on them it puts me past the actual forum thread, so I have to scroll back up to read it. I tried the last reply plugin, doesn’t work.

Even clicking on the forum links doesn’t take me to the post, but to somewhere past it.

Can you give me some pointers on how to fix this basic functionality?

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years ago]

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[@audiomonk Participant 7 years ago]

Hi thanks for your reply, that’s a big undertaking for my site given the amount of plugins, and combinations of plugins that may be conflicting with bbpress. I tried another theme, that seemed to work a little better, so am guessing it could be a theme conflict with bbpress.

I was more after guidelines of things that could go wrong to look out for, am guessing it uses a tags with an id to jump to the relevant post?

I think I’ll wait until I get a staging setup done, so I can test things on a non live site.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years ago]

all sites need a staging site !!

[@audiomonk Participant 7 years ago]

Wow that’s a bit abrupt.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years ago]

wasn’t meant to be abrupt, just a statement 🙂

[@audiomonk Participant 7 years ago]

I think it was the exclamation marks, and my stress levels. Just so many things to sort out, thought there’d be a quicker way. 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years ago]

if you have a public site and a link to an example, I’ll see if I can find anything obvious

[@audiomonk Participant 7 years ago]

Hi,

https://jwfsanctuary.club and the widget on the side to the latest forum posts is a good example, thanks for taking a look. Thanks so much.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years ago]

pretty sure it’s theme related – and in particular that text is allowed to scroll behind the menu, so when you click to a reply, the start point is hidden behind the menu.

Beyond help on here I’m afraid – sorry but only so much I can do without needing to spend hours on it.

[@audiomonk Participant 7 years ago]

Thanks for some pointers, that’s all I was really after. Can you just clarify which text do you mean that is allowed to scroll behind the menu? Not sure how you mean.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years ago]

if you look at the black banner at the top with the menu, you can see text scroll behind it. bbpress thinks it is displaying the start of the reply at the top of the screen, but actually it is behind the banner

[@audiomonk Participant 7 years ago]

Brilliant, thanks so much. I’ll contact the theme developers about it. Thanks again Robin.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years ago]

no problem, glad I could help 🙂