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Wanted to announce that I downloaded the encounters-lite theme template once again, and retried installing site to my root directory using duplicator for the third time. I created an entirely different database with a new user and it worked flawlessly this time. No idea what was different other than a completely different database and user. It appears this issue is closed.

Thank you for the reply. The version of Encounters-lite I am using is 2.5.2, which I believe is the latest version. Using wordpress version 4.6.1. The site URL is vhoasatx.com. Because of the error, I have the site being redirected to a subdomain, which is my test site and it is vhoatest.vhoasatx.com. Because of the error, the site would not run at all and I could not redirect it to a working subdomain, so I took it down and reloaded my old site files. No idea why, but once I did that, I could redirect and both my main and subdomains ran ok. I figured I did something wrong when I tried to upload my new site, so repeated the process with the same results. Got the error mentioned in the original posting and neither the main or the subdomain would run. Had to reload the old site files to the main root directory and then redirect it to the subdomain. That is how it is configured now until I can figure out how to solve the error which crashes my site.

Hope this makes sense. I guess in summary, when I attempt to upload the new site files using the encounters-lite theme, I get the error mentioned and neither my main domain or subdomain will run. Once I reload the old files, which are running off a different theme, I can then redirect to a subdomain which is running the encounters-lite theme. Just makes no sense to me at all. By the way, I have attempted to upload the new files with duplicator and manually by FTP then changing the database links. I get the same results with both methods.

Would appreciate any help you could offer.

Thank you for the response and suggestion. I did uncheck that block yesterday and new registrations continued. Woke up this morning and had about 150 new ones. Was beside myself and totally frustrated. I was going to reinstall a backup done a couple of weeks ago and spent some time reading up on it. Oddly enough, I have not gotten any new uses for over 6 hours o fingers crossed I have finally put an end to it. Why it took overnight to stop it I do not know. Will watch for a couple of days and see what happens.

Th good news is that the user forum was a “nice to have” and not a necessity so worst case scenario is I leave it turned off.

Thanks again

Update: since I removed the forum page, new users are not able to post content, but still getting new user registrations occurring. The list is growing fairly rapidly and need to get it shut down somehow.

Thank you for your response. I was not able to get rid of the right blog column as indicated and needed to make progress on site so I changed templates. The one I settled on seems to work as well for me but thank you for looking at my issue. Had not had time to shut it down.