bbStylePack v5.6.8 screwing link to user profile

OK. I’ve been looking at your test site. There seems to be some sort of issue with permalinks/slugs.

I get 404 not found error pages with almost EVERY link in the top main site navigation menu, which really has nothing to do with bbPress, BuddyPress, or Style Pack:

https://testsite.ovni-owners.org.uk/about/
https://testsite.ovni-owners.org.uk/amazing-ovnis-gallery/
https://testsite.ovni-owners.org.uk/posts/
https://testsite.ovni-owners.org.uk/links/
https://testsite.ovni-owners.org.uk/help/
https://testsite.ovni-owners.org.uk/contact/

About the only functional links on your test site are for the home page, forum and member list. Everything else is broken.

Now, I also checked out your main actual live site, and it does NOT have the same permalink/404 not found issue.

On your actual live site, viewing member profiles has been disabled.

The message I get specifically states:

“Oops! Can’t get you where you tried to go!
You are not logged in.”

If it has anything to do with Style Pack, you’ll find the settings for it in Style Pack > Profiles (/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbp-style-pack&tab=profile)

Make sure #1 is set to

 Show Profiles to everyone (default bbPress)

Also, the Profile redirection value just below that is likely set to /oops-cant-get-you-where-you-tried-to-go/ which is where people are sent when they are not allowed to view profiles.

Double-check that and get back to us if you still have issues.

Once you get this sorted, I’d suggest making your test site private and/or not publicly accessible. It’s bad for security and search engine page ranking.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by codejp3.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by codejp3.

Thanks for your fulsome response.

Firstly. apologies for the issues with my test site. I had deactivated most plugins while troubleshooting and had failed to reactivate all needed. One, SitePush , is used to copy the database between the live and test site and takes care of fixing up the URLs (mostly) on the test site. That plugin was not active and hence the URLs were wrong. It is now active.

Secondly, I have not worked on this site for a long while and had forgotten that I was blocking access to the full profile for not-logged-on users.

Thirdly, because SitePush cannot fix up URLs in odd places such as within plugins, I have to use relative URLs so they work on both the live and test site. In StylePack profile, I do, indeed, have the redirection URL set to ‘/oops-cant-get-you-where-you-tried-to-go/’ which is the relative URL but StylePack seems to be always using it as absolute. How should I enter a relative URL here?

Regarding the test site, search engines are blocked but I will look at further restrictions.

Thanks

I tried an absolute redirection URL in my live site (working) and pulled it across to my test site. It works there too, so SItePush is fixing this one up.

So my problems seem resolved. Thanks for your help. Sorry to have troubled you.

Glad you got it resolved!

For completeness:

@antipole

How should I enter a relative URL here?

You’d want to put it in the format of
/oops-cant-get-you-where-you-tried-to-go/
within the Style Pack settings.

Style pack will add whatever you put there onto the site_url. So it SHOULD automatically change regardless of which site you’re using. If it’s not, we can try to figure out why and possibly adjust the plugin code accordingly.

I’m going to mark this as resolved, but feel free to add comments or questions if needed.