Troubleshooting

Clear your cache! I've had countless "bug reports" taken care of simply by telling people to clear their cache. Cache can cause all sorts of weirdness. This should be the first thing you do followed by a hard browser refresh. In D6 you can clear your cache under performance. In D5 you either need the devel module or manually empty the cache_* tables.

Drupal 5

Problem: Your forum overview / topic list pages are blank.
Solution: Copy one of the style directories from advanced_forum/styles into your theme's directory. If using the Zen theme, copy it to your subtheme's directory. Make sure you set the style choice in Advanced Forum's settings.

Problem: The forum overview / topic list pages look fine but the individual threads look like stock Drupal.
Solution: Add the call to advanced_forum_addvars() to your _phptemplate_variables() as explained in the install instructions. Make sure you are actually returning the modified $vars/$variables from the function and not just "array()".

Problem: Even users with access get the "Login to post topics" link.
Solution: Your forum vocabulary has become disassociated with the forum type. Try http://drupal.org/node/90214

Problem: Forum posts are not showing up in the forums but show up in the "new forum posts" block.
Solution: Your forum vocabulary has become disassociated with the forum type. Try http://drupal.org/node/90214

Problem: The word "Comments" appears between the forum topic and the comments.
Solution: Check if your theme implements phptemplate_comment_wrapper in template.php. If so, see http://drupal.org/node/263638#comment-860458 for the solution.

Problem:The node/comment templates aren't working correctly or are missing variables.
Solution: The instructions say to put the call to advanced_forum_addvars() at the top of _phptemplate_variables() just to make it easier for non programmers. This means, though, that you may have code farther down in the function that disturbs the variables added by Advanced Forum. Try moving the code to the bottom, before the return $vars; so nothing else changes the variables after Advanced Forum.

Problem: The reply link is not showing up at the bottom of the top post.
Solution: You need to copy the phptemplate_comment_wrapper() code.

Drupal 6

Problem: CSS/template overrides are not working in non default themes.
Solution: There is an issue with the global $theme variable not being set affecting only some sites that has never been solved. To work around this, I fall back to the default theme when the variable isn't set. For sites with this problem, you need to put your AF theme overrides in your default theme.

Problem: Fatal error: Unsupported operand types in /path/sites/all/modules/advanced_forum/includes/style.inc on line 132 (that number may change)
Solution: This error occurs when your site's theme is not enabled. Go to admin/build/themes and enable it.

Both

Problem: The views count is not showing up on the topic list.
Solution: Enable the statistics module and enable view counts.

Problem: The first reply overlaps the bottom of the forum node.
Solution: This affects Garland and any theme that copied its negative margins. In your style.css, add #comments{margin:0; padding:0; top:0;} to cancel that out.

Problem: Two signatures are displayed with the signature_forum module enabled.
Solution: Switch off automatically adding signatures to content by browsing to Administer -> Site configuration -> Signatures for Forums. Expand Other options, un-check Automatically add signatures to content and Save configuration.

Problem: The default avatar doesn't show when the imagecache option is enabled.
Solution: Advanced Forum simply takes what you set as the default image and hands it off to Imagecache. Imagecache can't handle a full URL path. Therefore, you need to use a relative path to the image when you set the default image.

Problem: The posts are too tall.
Solution: By default, Advanced Forum sets the height to 350 to accomodate a fully loaded Author Pane. For sites with small/no avatars or not using all the contrib modules, this can result in a lot of whitespace when posts are short. To fix this, in advanced_forum-structure.css, find:

And change the 350 to something that suits your site better.

Problem: Blue Lagoon hides the unpublished node/comment styling from the theme.
Solution: Setting .node-unpublished .content {} to the same as .node-unpublished {} will apply the theme's unpublished style to the main content area of the post.

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