Important can't add announcements or add new topics

I converted from 1.5.x to 1.6.4 today and everything went smoothly. All green checks.

However, when superadmin clicks on Announcements, I get taken the forum/recent where it says "no topics". Also, if I click on any forum the page take me to the forum/category page, but it just says "no topics" and there's no place to add a new topic at all.

I tried enabling and making the mootools upgrade top most plugin. I also updated my template which was ported to mootools 1.2. No dice.

Firebig throws this error on page load:
this.options.duration is undefined

Been working on this for hours with no resolution.

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Joomla default template details : rt_solarsentinel_j15 | author: RocketTheme, LLC | version: 1.5.6 | creationdate: April 29, 2010

Kunena default template details : Blue Eagle (default) | author: Kunena Team | version: 1.6.4 | creationdate: 2011-05-07

Kunena version detailled: Installed version: 1.6.4 | Build: 4832 | Version name: Kerkrade | Kunena detailled configuration:

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[th]Kunena config settings:[/th]

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Third-party components: AlphaUserPoints 1.5.9 | CommunityBuilder 1.4

Third-party SEF components: None

Plugins: System - Mootools Upgrade: Disabled | System - Mootools12: Disabled

Modules: None

I think that the reason that you cannot add new announcements or topics could be caused by a couple of factors.

In the first place, the K 1.6 Upgrade Guide mentions that you may need to consider several issues in migrating from K 1.5.x to K 1.6.x not the least of which involves the interaction of the Javascript libraries deployed by various Joomla extensions that you have installed and Joomla's Mootools 1.2+ libraries themselves. These matters are address in msg #1 of If you are having problems with K 1.6, please read this first .

The second issue concerns your Joomla menu and, from your configuration report, I can see that you have several menu items that conflict with one another. I suggest you look at what I wrote earlier today which might help you: see No forum links working, forum visible but cannot view posts .

Lastly, please read the important information we have mentioned on a hundred or more occasions about using legacy mode. The key point is that if you are using legacy mode, please don't.

I hope this helps.

Do you have some SEF component installed? If it doesn't support the new URLs in Kunena 1.6, you get issues just like this.

no, just Joomla SEF. must be a mootools issue because my popup logins do not work

I think you should try Kunena with default Joomla & Kunena template.

Usually JavaScript isn't changing links, but its possible to do that. Copy/paste URL to check if it's correct. Also check if it changes/redirects to another page.