@tutrix Very interesting @tutrix. Thanks for the info. A couple of surprising things: You supplied a PNG in your post for a "Recent Posts" dr...

@chris Thanks. That is just the kind of how-does-this-actually-work stuff I needed. But what I am finding doesn't seem to exactly match that. And it...

Update: After much fiddling around and just figuring out how things seem to work, here is what I did and how I believe it must be done. But please cor...

Done. You already had a user account - subscriber role. I changed it to Admin and sent a password reset link if you need it.

@selinahub - Did you see my next post concerning manually adding the sidebar using Appearance > Widgets? Click on Browse All and then search for ...

I was able to simply manually re-configure the side bar under "Appearance > Widgets". I had to remember had to do this, but fairly straightforward ...

Just updated to v2.0.3 of wpForo. I still do NOT have my sidebar. Please instruct.

Thx @realact. The obvious answer is that I was unaware of such a link at the bottom. I tried it and indeed it has correctly reset. Was this an un...

Two issues left unresolved at this point: Loss of the wpForo sidebar (I think this included tags, search, etc. functionality - but I honestly don'...

For those of you that have never had to do this without WP prompting you to update. I have updated my two wpForo addons via the following process: ...

Update: My site is functional again. Using an FTP client, I renamed "wp-content/plugins/wpforo-advanced-attachments/wpforoattach.php" to "_wpforoa...

Obviously, I am hoping you have a solution on how to fix this problem as my top priority now.