[Plugin: Mingle Forum] No Way to Post New Comments or Topics on Any Forum

[4795209]

I’ve been working with this plugin for hours now and am about ready to delete it. It installs easy and looks great but there is no way to post a new topic or comment as the WordPress Administrator and after I logged out, I created a bogus user account to see if I could participate in the forum as a a casual web user. Nope. I could register and log in but there was no Forum to post anything to and no way to post a new topic or post. I checked other websites of people who posted questions about the same topic asking for help, and their forums were same way. No way to post new topics or comments in any of the “forums.” I could register but then once I was in their “backend” as a subscriber I could not post any comments to anything.

I watched every video tutorial there is and the layout and icons used in the videos don’t match what I downloaded and when the video narrator shows you how to set everything up and then post a sample topic, it simply can’t be done because the button is not there.

I’ll sleep on it, but something tells me I’m going to have to delete this plugin and try something else: There is simply no way to post new topics whether you’re a website Administrator or outsider who registers.

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[alby54]

First of all, who said that mingle forum didn’t work? To me it works with no problems whatsoever. About Simple Press, I just give you a rough list of the main features that are not included in the free version and that should be normal requirements in a basic forum (in mingle they are all available for free)
Preview
Topic status
Subscriptions
Image and file uploads
Captcha
Gravatar cache
Profanity filter
Spam registration

Shoul I continue?
Plus, respect MF…..still missing RSS Feed, Video uploading and Google maps insert (not all forums are about video games or software)
Without considering that even a minimum support is well payed by monthly or yearly rates. I do not care to compare the two products, all I say is that presenting SP as a free software is quite ridiculous and unfair even considering the fact that among the payware and professional software it would be rated at the very lowest positions.

[TE5LA]

Another shortcoming of MF, even when I could get it to work, is the absence of sub-forums. This is really important unless you want only a few forums. Personally, I’d not pay for forum software when there’s good freeware out there. If I wanted great forum software, I’d just use phpBB3, free and it blows all these WordPress forums away. It’s just I wanted something I could easily integrate with WordPress.

The Mingles people were very nice helping me modify the forum to better fit my layout. I praise them for this. I’m not going to receive any support from SimplePress, I realize this also and I had to fix their bad code that created errors when I tried to read a post. I figured out the fix and it’s working great. It doesn’t blend as well as MF did visually, but if the forum isn’t working, I can’t use it. I tried all the suggestions and nothing changed. It may be something simple causing these issues that nobody has been able to determine, but it is obviously there or there wouldn’t be so many reports of the same thing.

I’m not here to put down anyone’s software; They are better than I could write myself. I appreciate free software. My posts are just to report what I find and hopefully it leads to a solution. You can see my SimplePress forums here:

https://roswell.podzone.net/forum/

[Curt44319]

Simple press was great, EXCEPT the quote button doesn’t work.
Finally abandoned it for bbpress, ran the converter, cleaned up a few errors, and bbpress “just works” as it should.
Looks not so pretty, but it works.
I’d rather have something that works, but could look better, than something that looks great but doesn’t work.

Gave up on mingle forum quickly. Much too difficult to get working in any acceptable forum-ish way.

[cartpauj]

I’ve seen this happen a few times before. Because Mingle Forum, Forum Server, and WP Forum are all plugins from the same branch (Mingle Forum obviously being the best one of the 3) if Forum Server, or WP Forum were installed before Mingle Forum sometimes the ghost forum issue appears. The way to fix it is to deactivate the plugin delete all groups, categories, forums, moderators, then re-activate.

I realize this is a bit extra work, but it will at least solve this problem.

[TE5LA]

I had done the removal, deletion, even re-installing the entire WordPress application and could not get MF to work adequately. Even though the “Post” button would appear at times, everyone was still listed as an admin and could edit the real admin’s posts. Nothing in permissions altered this.