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I have gone through all the settings to ensure guests are setup to view each forum and the guest level is set on each forum. Guests still cannot see the forums or posts. If you are a guest and click on recent posts, you can see the recent posts though. But you cannot see any forums or posts under specific forums. I noticed that if I edit the FORUM page and add text to it, guests cannot see the text on the FORUM page unless I am logged in with a valid WordPress account. it seems to be something with the page permissions but I am not sure. I am trying to set it up so guests can see the forums and read the posts but not post or reply. 

Guess can see the members, recent posts but when you click on the forums option, nothing shows up except for the title of the main board. I have attached what it looks like for a guest account. I am just trying to figure out why guests cannot see the forum list or topics when all the permissions are set properly from what I can see. 

Again, if I add text to the forum page, a guest cannot see it but a registered user can. The page is set to public and the [wpforo] tag is in the page. 

Any help is appreciated as I cannot figure it out. 


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 ZFL
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I have the exact same issue. I clicked around in Forum Maintenance and got it to rebuild the forum for public view, but it was a one time fix apparently. 


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Sofy
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@zfl 

Please read this support topic: https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/guest-permissions-topics-not-visible/


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 ZFL
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Hi @sofy , thanks for the link! I found out last night that disabling minify from my WP-Optimize plugin solves the issue. 

Any tips on getting more wpForo forum to load more quickly? I think I have a terribly slow host server...


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Sofy
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@zfl 

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