start new topic screen issue

[gpflyfishing]

For some reason my start new topic screen aligns all of my icons in a vertical presentation.  See attached screen shot.  How do I fix this?

[TheListener]

welcome to smf gpflyfishing

Are you using the default theme?

Many mods installed?

[gpflyfishing]

thx for the quick reply.  Im using the curve theme SMF 2.0.2.  The forum is at http://www.gpflyfishing.com/forum/ [nofollow].  Only mod is google ad mod.  I would like it to look like this layout minus the Verification, which is an entire other issue.  Can you help?

[TheListener]

Any errors on installing the mod?

Any after installing?

Try uninstalling the mod and see what happens.

BUT

Remember to backup first.

[gpflyfishing]

I uninstalled and still have the same issue.  What else could it be?

[novill]

You have lot of errors, see the attached pictures. Have you tried the default theme?

[gpflyfishing]

No  but I am willing to give it a try.  How do I switch my theme to the default?

[MrPhil]

It's just that one screen that gives you the vertical icons? What happened is you lost your CSS on that one screen. If it keeps happening, look at the page HTML source (browser View > Page Source) and find the <link> tag for (probably) index.css. Compare it the source on another page that formats correctly. Are they the same? What's different? Does the one on the New Topic page appear to have the wrong address or something? It's unusual to have CSS fail on just one page. In fact, before you do anything else, either clear your browser cache or force a reload on that page (Ctrl-F5), and see if it loads a good copy of index.css this time around.

[gpflyfishing]

I tried this an the css code in the page source appears to be the same.  Any other ideas that I can try?  Had to remove my forum because the experience is not very good because of this issue.

[Storman™]

Think it's already on Default.

Could be the CSS from the Wordpress theme is clashing with SMF as some of the classes/properties might have identical names.

[gpflyfishing]

What do you guys recommend I do here?  Sounds like if files are conflicting re installing the forum might not be a viable solution.

[Colin]

What do you guys recommend I do here?  Sounds like if files are conflicting re installing the forum might not be a viable solution.

If you are willing to do that. Then yes, that would be the best. Remember to backup.

[Storman™]

What do you guys recommend I do here?  Sounds like if files are conflicting re installing the forum might not be a viable solution.

You could try a reinstall in case that was the reason, but I suspect it'll be the same afterwards.

The only way around it is to rename the relevant classes (either in SMF or Wordpress) so that the names are unique. You'll need to do the CSS and the theme's template so they tally.

Don't forget though that when you upgrade at a later date you'll need to remember the changes you've made otherwise they could get overwritten at upgrade. Consequently, make sure you document them in a way you'll understand in a years time.

Basically you've come across one of issues that is quite common when integrating two systems. It's one that is easily overlooked beforehand.

[MrPhil]

Are you trying to run SMF and Wordpress in the same directory? That can't be done. They'll interfere with each other. Normally, all applications (such as SMF or Wordpress) should be installed into their own subdirectories (/blog, /forum) precisely for this reason -- so they can't step on each other's toes. You then either have a landing page/portal in the root /, or .htaccess URL rewrite to make either SMF or Wordpress the primary application.