Have you created a link for it? In your sidebar or somewhere? I'd suggest using the WP template tag wp_list_pages() (See the WP Codex - Template Tags).

Take a look at the topics in the online help - installation troubleshooting. The one called 'Nothing Displays' - that is the usual reason for this.

Where do you see 'Index of /forum'? This sounds more like a directory listing.

And where is the online help button that is disabled?

Go to Admin > Forum Menu > Online Help

My apologies that your initial post was not answered. I assure you that is unusual and an oversight.

This is very, very strange. You do NOT have the forum installed as far as I can see. The page you are seeing is a server directory listing. I see no evidence that the plugin is actually installed.

So let's start over. After you activated the plugin did you go through the actual 'install' routne from the forum menu? And if the answer to that is yes - do you see anything in the Admin 'Forum' menu? And can you access any of those screens?

Also - did you copy the plugin to the correct place - so that the 'simple-forum' folder is located in the 'plugins' folder?

Well even more strange.

I just went to take another look at the link you gave us above and it loaded up your forum as it should. Have you changed something?

Maybe you have done everything ok, but usually link to forum is sth. like this http://www.yourwebpage/?page_id=###.

Instead of ### there should be randomed number generated by SF froum upon installation and it is shown on main page of admin menu.  Under “Forum Page Details” there are two fields “Forum Page Id” and “Forum Page Slug”.

So my guess if forum is not showing up under Pages in your WP theme, then do it manualy, take number from “Forum Page Id” type in manually “http://australian-vegan-business.com/?page_id=###” replaye ### with numbers.

Here are my answers, first to palenholik:

I did as you said and used the page id instead of /forum, but the results were the same ie i saw the index page, just like when i use …/forum.

YS, my answer to your questions:

1) I went to Admin > Settings > Permalinks and saved without changing anything. Wordpress told me my settings had been updated - there was no error message.

2) When i clicked Update Forum Permalink in Admin > Forum > Options > Toolbox the permalink was the same ie after the update it was …/forum.

3) I went to my blog, loaded the home page, but don't have a link on that to my simple-press forum yet. However i did add 'forum' to the end of the address and hit that but got the Index as usual.

4) The page ID and page slug of the Forum 'page' in WP (Manage Pages) is the same as in the forum Admin tab.

5) There are no plugins i've installed to redirect permalinks. Although i don't know if any of the ones i have do that incidentally. I'm guessing not. The closest i can see to something like that is FeedBurner FeedSmith. As i mentioned in the initial thread i started though, the plugin Max Banner Ads doesn't work. Although i don't think that plugin has anything to do with redirection.

Rico, this may require us taking a closer look inside WP to see whats going on.  Would you be willing to set us up a temp wp admin account to have a look?  If so, please PM Andy andy myself the account details and we can have a closer clook.

Rico,

please make the change in this thread.  Things are not getting updated because you nor the temp account you created are getting access.  Let me know when you have done this.

getting close to bed time but may have a chance for a quick look..

are you sure you have your email address for gravatar entered correctly?  also, we recently discovered a bug if you email addy has mixed case in it.

You came up with the answer Mr Papa!

I did try some nonWP forum software in the past. Recenlty i tried bbPress, which i didn't like. While i uninstalled it using Simple Scripts, that left an empty forum directory in my public_html folder that i didn't think about.

As soon as i read your post, i remembered it, renamed it and… wala, the SP forum appeared!

That's the main thing taken care of, however i still have a few other questions:

1) Should i now follow your tutorial on narrow themes? http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/creating-custom-page-templates/

2) Should i also return the 3 files you asked me to change back to their original state?

3) The Online Help button in Manage Options still doesn't work. Any suggestions for that?

4) The Max Banner Ads plugin also doesn't work. Ideas on that?

5) Regarding an email address for gravatars, what's a correctly entered email address? It's written like a standard address that you'd use to send an email. There are no spaces - eg email @ goopy.com - and no mixed case.

1) ok, i'll take a look at the tute.

2) good, thanks.

3) i deleted the account before i read your post, but i recreated it again just in case.

4) Max Banner Ads allows you to manage, rotate and place banner ads in different locations.

5) the email address on my profile is all lower case.

It does contain a hyphen though - that's part of my address. Could that be it?