Forum Page is Empty

If your forum page displays but the only part displaying is the page title then it is probably because your WordPress theme is missing some vital components that should be there.

Please check the following two theme templates.

The Theme Header Template

This is most usually name header.php.

For a large number of plugins to work correctly, WordPress stipulates that the theme header file should include a call to a special function that plugins can utilise. This function is wp_head(). To check if your theme header file includes this function – and a remarkable number of theme authors do NOT include it, open it for editing. It should be placed immediately before the closing ‘head’ tag as in:

<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>

The Theme Footer Template

This is most usually name footer.php.

For a large number of plugins to work correctly, WordPress stipulates that the theme footer file should include a call to a special function that plugins can utilise. This function is wp_footer(). To check if your theme footer file includes this function – and a remarkable number of theme authors do NOT include it, open it for editing. It should be placed more or less at the end of the footer but before closing ‘body’ and ‘html’ tags:

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

The Page Template

This is most usually name page.php.

More rarely, though not impossible, your theme page template nay be mssing a similarly necessary call – this time to the_content(). Take a look at the template and locate the call. If it does not exist we suggest that you open your theme index.php file, locate the same call in that file, note it’s position and copy it across to your page template.