How to update to 2.0 safely - How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/ Discussion Board en-US Sun, 10 May 2026 11:33:26 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: How to update to 2.0 safely https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/4/#post-69212 Mon, 15 Aug 2022 07:05:16 +0000 @jasontoth,

It's better to ask slim SEO developers to turn off their plugins on forum pages. They can use the following statement:

if( is_wpforo_page() )

 

The documentation: https://wpforo.com/docs/wpforo-v2/settings/wpforo-seo/

 

wpForo has a built-in SEO system with all necessary SEO data in forum pages, you should exclude the SEO plugin from forum pages. The SEO plugins can't work with wpForo. wpForo is not based on custom post types so, your SEO plugin has no chance to work for your forum unless this plugin devs make some special changes to make it compatible with wpForo. 

At the Moment only Yoast SEO, All-In-One SEO, The SEO Framework, SEOPress, and Rank Math SEO plugins are compatible with wpForo. These plugins are automatically disabled on wpForo forum pages, allowing wpForo SEO functions to work without any conflict. So saying compatible I mean those plugins don't affect wpForo SEO data and those don't insert any SE information in forum pages. If a SEO plugin is not compatible, it makes lots of problems, it understands all forum pages and topics as a one forum page with the same title and canonical URLs, so Search Engines will see your forum as a one page. 

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 Robert https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/4/#post-69212 RE: How to update to 2.0 safely https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/4/#post-69185 Mon, 15 Aug 2022 02:31:11 +0000 I figured out why the Slim SEO stopped set pages from working. I am going to write to them and see if they give me a fix, but here is what happens.

On the WP side there are short codes generated by wpForo for the pages. For example the short code is on one of the page.

On the slim SEO if there is no meta description it takes the first copy it finds, and auto ads this to the meta description, in this above case the meta description became . This causes a conflict on the page.

As soon as I insert other meta description without the brackets the page shows and works fine.

 

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 JasonToth https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/4/#post-69185 RE: How to update to 2.0 safely https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/3/#post-69175 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 20:47:48 +0000 Good advice. Thank you. On the Slim SEO problem maybe I should try to fix that before jumping to go change to another one? I will write to Slim SEO or see if anyone else using wpForo has this same problem.

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 JasonToth https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/3/#post-69175 RE: How to update to 2.0 safely https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/3/#post-69167 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 19:08:35 +0000
Posted by: @jasontoth

I will check out Seo Framework? I was using Yoast before and felt it was too heavy so had moved to minimal SEO plug, but I can read up on Seo Framework as not familiar with that one.

Don't do MASSIVE changes and updates ever.

Do it by small steps, otherwise you will be lost.

Solve your issues one by one.

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 dimalifragis https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/3/#post-69167 RE: How to update to 2.0 safely https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/3/#post-69164 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 18:51:29 +0000 I will check out Seo Framework? I was using Yoast before and felt it was too heavy so had moved to minimal SEO plug, but I can read up on Seo Framework as not familiar with that one.

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 JasonToth https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/3/#post-69164 RE: How to update to 2.0 safely https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/3/#post-69144 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 12:00:32 +0000 Also why don't you use some really good and established seo plugin, like Seo Framework?

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 dimalifragis https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/3/#post-69144 RE: How to update to 2.0 safely https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/3/#post-69138 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 08:55:10 +0000 A Blank page is the white page of Death. A Fatal Error.

Enable Wordpress debug to a log to view the complete error.

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 dimalifragis https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/3/#post-69138 RE: How to update to 2.0 safely https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/3/#post-69135 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 01:03:13 +0000 Okay I found the problem, but not sure how to fix it.

Looks like when I have the following plugin installed it blocks the pages? When I don't have it on it is okay.

  Slim SEO
Activate | Delete

A fast and automated SEO plugin for WordPress.

Version 3.15.0 | By eLightUp | View details
]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 JasonToth https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/3/#post-69135 RE: How to update to 2.0 safely https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/2/#post-69134 Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:36:17 +0000 Thank you. This all worked okay and I did this on my test site before executing on my live site. Only issue is that on the live site when you go to look at the profile, recent activity, users page it is all blank...?

This was all fine on the dev site so not sure why didn't work on the live site.

Here is the dev page:

http://dev.writersofthefuture.com/participant/3/activity/

Live page:

https://www.writersofthefuture.com/participant/3/activity/

Thanks so much for any help.

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 JasonToth https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/2/#post-69134 RE: I updated my forum and I just get a critical error? https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/2/#post-69067 Sat, 13 Aug 2022 09:16:05 +0000 @jasontoth,

Before the updating to wpForo 2.0

  • Please deactivate current addons or update them to 3.0.0 version before updating wpForo to 2.0.x
  • Deactivate Go2wpForo tool if you have installed and done forum migration
  • Make sure you don’t have old forum template files in /wpforo/ folder of your current active theme directory /wp-content/themes/your-active-theme/.
  • After the update, please delete all caches and purge CDN if you have.
  • Please read Update to wpForo v2 Instruction
  • In case the update has been done automatically and your website is crashed please use these solutions
]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 Robert https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-updated-my-forum-and-i-just-get-a-critical-error/paged/2/#post-69067