[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

It has been quite an uphill battle for me with this, but I believe that I have finally found the offending plugin. Thank you @mrgiblets for your last suggestion. I began going through and turning off each of those plugins in your mini list, just to see if we got anywhere.

bbP private groups seems to be having a major conflict with my site, rendering those posts as 404’s. I’ve had it turned off since Thursday or Friday and so far, I haven’t had an issue arise since. I’ve turned back on Akismet and All in One SEO and so far, so good. I’m incredibly hopeful that I’ve found my solution.

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

Hi @mrgiblets

Thanks for the follow-up response. I’m going through and disabling these one-by-one as the issue rears it’s ugly face again. So far, I’ve turned off AiOSP and Akismet (the most recent turn off). Contact Form 7 has been off for about a week at this point.

We shall see what happens next!

I’ve also tried this other thing: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-results-found-permalink-issue?replies=6

But alas, nothing resulted from this. For some reason when I went in to CHMOD it back to 644 this morning (I changed it to 444 yesterday), it was mysteriously set back to the default 644 already. Not sure what to make of that.

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

So it just happened again on one of my main pages. It seems that if I deactivate any plugin, it refreshes the permalinks or something, because the page comes back immediately after I deactivate a plugin and refresh the page.

This is going to make it much harder to identify the plugin.

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

@mrgiblets

No need to run complicated SQL queries 😉

1) Click on the wp_options table
2) Click on Search at the top
3) Enter “permalink_structure” into the option_name value box
4) Click “Go”
5) You will see your permalink structure eg : /%postname/% in the option_value field
6) Click on it and put your new one in there or leave it blank for the WP default one.
7) Hit enter! Done!

I’m not entirely sure I’m following on this one. I get how to get to there and whatnot, but is this basically just to re-save in the event of issues again in the future (where I can’t log in)? If so, perfect, glad to know how to get there quickly! 🙂

@mcpeanut – “custom post type ui” – Do you know if that addon allows you to see all the ones currently on your site, or is it to only add/moderate ones you add via the plugin? I’d love to see if there are any duplicates.

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

@mrgiblets

I always try to do a backup of it, whenever I know I’m going to be messing with something that could be detrimental. I can navigate around a WP DB pretty well, but making modifications by writing the MySQL is not something I have experience with, though I know how to add MySQL if the code is provided to me, the same goes for any PHP. I can’t write it, but I can add it and understand how it operates (though I’ve written a chunk of it myself recently and felt pretty proud haha – this project has taught me a lot).

I’ll make sure to start backing up the database weekly, which will definitely help with any issues that could crop up in the future.

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

@mcpeanut

I think it’s entirely possible that something is using the same permalink structure. I have a bunch of gw2 and ffxiv slugs, which when I write one, I always try to add something like gw2-events, ffxiv-pictures, or something so that they aren’t exactly the same. Now I’m wondering if I’ve missed one.

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

@mrgiblets – I’m not sure on the WP Symposium Toolbar front. All it seems to do is add additional functionality to the top toolbar, to allow additional linkage and whatnot. I’m not sure if it could be the culprit. It seems damn near anything could be at this point!

@mcpeanut – I do have DP Pro Event Calendar (purchased from CodeCanyon.com). Do you know of a way to specifically see all of the slugs on a site to make sure nothing is duplicate? If not, that will take a while to track through all of them to see if that’s maybe the cause…

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

I found out that the plugin blocking those pages from public view, is out of date and it seems it’s working (or tested) up to 3.9.2, so that could be the cause of some of my issues, though I am unsure.

I’m trying to figure out how to go on without the plugin because it helps me moderate the new users (i.e. they cannot access the content until they’ve been approved). Does anyone know of an up-to-date plugin that allows for this same ability (even if it doesn’t block those pages from view)?

@mrgiblets – Thank you so much for that link, that will come in handy if ever it happens again. It was rather terrifying to be locked out.

@henrywright – Thank you! I saw that option, but wasn’t sure what it would do if I turned it off, I’ll test that.

@mcpeanut – Glad to hear it can be done. The scary part is, my site is 100% live, so doing testing is always scary for me because if something goes wrong, I have a ton of people who see it going wrong (and then my Skype blows up). The bigger issue is, I couldn’t have tested this on a non-live site, because the error seems to occur with usage, but I can’t be 100% sure of that either. Seems that if I save the permalink structure, that in about two days, the errors creep back in.

And thus, the testing continues…

Thank you for all of your replies, thoughts and ideas. 🙂

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 8 months ago]

Hi @danbp

I have a specific plugin that is blocking those pages, unless you’re a member of the site itself, so those are not supposed to show to the average user.

Someone on the official WP forums said that maybe it was a re-write error that is happening in the .htaccess file and so he told me to download that, and then when it messes up again with the Page Not Found alert, to then download the .htaccess file again and compare the two, to see if it’s re-writing oddly. If so, then he directed me to adjust it to 444, rather than 644 (though I am unsure of what issues could arise from that).

Do you think that perhaps the plugin I’m using, to block those several pages, could be causing the issue?

Also, I’ve always found it odd but, if you go to my forums (as a member) and go to any of the topics within, the URL is odd, always has been through three installs: http://www.heartwoodgaming.com/forums/forum/bulletin-board/general-banter/

I’ve always wondered if it’s normal that it says /forums/forum/?

Anyhow, thank you for the message! Hoping I can get to the bottom of this nightmare.

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Perfect! Thank you @mercime! 🙂

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Hi @mercime,

Thanks so much for getting on that so quickly!

However, it’s not seemingly staying within it’s own widget container, as it’s encroaching on the widget below it.

Any ideas?

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Hi @mercime

Sounds like a good plan. Let me know when you have a moment and I’ll put the widget right on the front page.

The same thing is happening to the Recently Active widget as well, and I assume they have similar coding: http://screencast.com/t/niGwM2790

Thanks in advance!

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Hi @mercime,

Thabks for getting back to me on this. I just logged into two accounts on my phone so hopefully you can see both before they log themselves off.

If not, I can definitely do this tomorrow during the say. It’s 1:30 here, o I need to nod off for the night.

If you see the issue, let me know! I’d love to solve this issue.

Thanks again for looking!

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Checking in on this topic. Hoping there is something that can be done regarding this widget. At the moment I can’t have more than 2-3 people logged in at a time without this thing scaling the page to be really long.

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Hi @mercime,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly and sorry I totally should have added that information.

http://www.heartwoodgaming.com/
I’m using Aggregate by Elegant Themes. 🙂

Thanks for looking! 🙂

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

You just totally saved the day! Thank you so much @bp-help. I was starting to feel like I was losing my mind. I really ought to check that Screen Options thing more often. Ugh!

Thanks again! <3

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

Hi @danbp, thanks so much for responding.

I tried this morning to repair the mediapress file by renaming it and reinstalling it, just to test it and see if that fixed the error and it did not. Still received the same response.

I’m thinking my only option at this rate is to go with BP Gallery, because I’m not finding anything that’s more afforadble/free. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Appreciate your help! 🙂

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

Okay, so… I’ve got a page that was called page-full.php that worked for me with bbpress, and it works if I change it to buddypress.php.

However, I really only want this for the user profile, not the other pages, so if someone knows what the user profile’s .php page is called, then that would solve my issue. Because I would like sidebars on some of the BuddyPress pages, just not all of them.

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

Is there a way to make it so that there are multiple options for full-width and some with sidebar?

For instance, I’d love to have a sidebar on members, activity, etc. But on the actual user profiles themselves, I’d like to remove the sidebar.

And oi! There sure are a lot of files for templates. I’m having trouble finding the one that would be used for User Profiles. 😐

Everything I’ve read says I should be looking for buddypress.php, but I don’t seem to have that file and none of the files I’ve looked in seem to have get_sidebar(). Hm.

[@alice-kaye Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

I have a child theme set up, thankfully.

Thank you for that link! Hopefully I can get this sorted out. 😀