Ok - I used a staging environment to narrow the issue down to a conflict between any of the Thrive plugins (Thrive Ultimatum, Thrive Leads, Thrive Quiz Builder) and WpForo.
Activating ANY Thrive plugins causes the "Please Insert Required Fields!" error when adding a new topic.
Disabling ALL Thrive plugins is the only way to get adding topics working again.
What's the next step here? Do I need to take this up with Thrive's developers? Or will you?
If it's nerfing my site, it'll be nerfing other installations.
Thanks for your help, Robert!
Best, A
P.s., I'm running the latest public plugin versions for Thrive and WpForo as of writing this message.
UPDATE: Here's the support ticket I've opened at Thrive for the same:
https://thrivethemes.com/forums/topic/thrive-wpforo-plugin-conflict/
Hi Robert - hope you're well!
Any update on this?
Thanks, A
Please send the admin login details to info[at]gvectors.com email address. I'll ask the developers to check it for you.
Hey, I've narrowed the issue down to a conflict between Flatsome, WpForo and Thrive.
https://thrivethemes.com/forums/topic/thrive-wpforo-plugin-conflict/#post-113177530
When all three are active, the issue kicks in. If I disable one of them, the issue disappears.
Any thoughts on next steps?
Best, A
P.s., I'd rather not hand out admin access.
You should be able to recreate the issue on your own staging environments.
Could you please create a dev/staging copy of your website in some sub-domain. Remove all information that you don't want to share, make sure the problem exists and send admin details to us? You can use Duplicator to create that site.
This problem is fixed.
The problem reason was your theme, it does lots of irregular and very unprofessional things on a simple page content outputer function. This kind of themes always causes tons of conflicts with content loaded plugins.
Thanks, @robert
As in, the problem will be fixed in the next update?
Or you took steps to fix the problem on the staging site?
If the latter, could you let me know what you did? I'll need to transfer the fix to the main site.
Thank you for your help! I'll look into switching to another theme 🤣
Best, A
yes, the issue will be fixed in the next update. If you cannot wait for the next update, just copy the whole /wpforo/ folder through FTP and paste it in the main site, so all wpForo files will be overwritten on the main site.
Then open the functions.php file and copy the first line (there should be add_filter) and paste it to the main saute functions.php file in the same place.
Amazing - thanks @sofy
Any idea when the next update is scheduled?
Will help me decide whether to invest an hour or two into this or just to sit tight.
Appreciate your help,
Arthur
@martin @sofy @robert Hey! Sorry to bring this up again.
The fix you kindly applied has totally killed all shortcodes within the forum (including any WP blocks or plugin shortcodes). They just present as plain text now.
Is there any chance you could fix the fix so this isn't a problem?!
It's a total disaster - a huge chunk of functionality in the forum was being provided by shortcodes and now the whole thing is a mess!
The fix you kindly applied has totally killed all shortcodes within the forum (including any WP blocks or plugin shortcodes). They just present as plain text now.
Please provide more information.
First please say what shortcode you use in forum. And where exactly the WP Blocks are killed? On forum page or on other pages? There should not be any WP Blocks on forum pages.
Hey @martin,
I've created a dummy topic here with examples of all three of UX Block, Theme and Plugin shortcodes being nerfed.
https://f2mstaging.wpengine.com/community/deep-work/test-for-wpforo/
This was never an issue beforehand. Using blocks lets me quickly edit content within closed threads (like material for my course) without having to open, edit and re-close the thread. Also, it's nice to work in a decent HTML editor.
Using plugin and theme shortcodes is essential for extending the functionality of the forum.
Thanks and best,
Arthur
Please navigate to Dashboard > Forums > Settings > Features tab, enable the "WordPress Shortcodes in Post Content" option, then delete all caches and check again.