Solved Kunena Latest Module 3.0.1 not showing latest posts

sozzled wrote:

huuanito wrote: Most all messages are in category that requires login but I'm viewing the latest module when logged in, in fact that's the only time you see the output of this module.

As I indicated earlier, without actually seeing the situation at first hand and without having your unedited Kunena configuration report to work with, it's all guesswork on our part. Good luck and I hope you discover the cause.

Thanks. I did not wish to disclose the location of my test site but now we are dealing with the live site so it's not an issue. I have attached my unedited config to my reply to xillibit in this thread.

Also I don't see the kunena menus on the forum page until after I click on a topic. Then they show. Shall I start another thread for that?

If you have questions about other matters unrelated to this subject then, yes, they should be tackled as separate subjects. May I offer you a suggestion in relation to "menu problems"? See the article Kunena Menu issues in the Wiki.

Getting back to the matter in this topic, I think it helps if we simplify things as much as possible. For example, you do not have AlphaUserPoints or JomSocial installed but you have enabled the forum integration plugins for those things. Interesting, eh?

How about changing the forum integration plugins as shown in red below:

Kunena - AlphaUserPoints Disabled
Kunena - Community Builder Enabled: access=0 login=1 activity=0 avatar=1 profile=1 private=0
Kunena - Gravatar Disabled
Kunena - JomSocial Disabled
Kunena - Joomla Enabled: access=1 login=0
Kunena - Kunena Enabled: avatar=0 profile=0
Kunena - UddeIM Enabled: private=1

That's the first thing you should do.

The next question that may be worth asking at this time is why do you require people to login in order to see the Kunena Latest module? :S I will give you a practical example of why, in my opinion, I think it may be unhelpful to use the Kunena Latest module after you have logged-in. Look at the home page of this website ( www.kunena.org ) and you will see the Kunena Latest module. The "idea" of the Kunena Latest module is to "advertise" the forum but it is not a replacement for the Recent Topics view, is it? But, again, that's just my opinion for what it's worth and people can use the Kunena Latest module however they want. If people want to use the Kunena Latest module to advertise (without having to login) that there's been some activity on the forum - which is the way that I use the module in my websites - then that's one way it can be used. If people want to use the Kunena Latest module in some other way (that requires people to login to the site beforehand) then that's another way. Each of these ways has "benefits", I suppose, and people can choose to agree or disagree with my opinions on the matter.

So, forgive my slightly "off-topic" commentary but maybe my observations may be beneficial to someone else reading this topic.

Let's see what happens when you tidy up the forum integration plugin settings that control how people access your forum, shall we?

I need to revise a few things. When I looked at your website the Kunena Latest module is displayed on the home page (without having to login first). You wrote:

I'm viewing the latest module when logged in, in fact that's the only time you see the output of this module.

That's not entirely true, is it? The module appears (although it outputs "No posts to display") even if you are not logged-in!

The second problem is that, when we visit your forum, we see the message "There are no published categories in ." I replied to a similar question on this subject yesterday: Problems after migration from J! 1.5 .

Thanks for your very detailed reply that I will do justice to soon. Meanwhile before I disable those two 'not installed' plugins I should point out that they are actually installed.

More soon.

I had seen now this topic. You have only wrong settings for this module.

Basic Options:
All/None: All/None
Category Filter: Hide Categories
Module Output: Latest Topics
Time Period: Since Last Visit

Change the category filter to "Show categories" and it should work.

sozzled wrote: I need to revise a few things. When I looked at your website the Kunena Latest module is displayed on the home page (without having to login first). You wrote:

I'm viewing the latest module when logged in, in fact that's the only time you see the output of this module.

That's not entirely true, is it? The module appears (although it outputs "No posts to display") even if you are not logged-in!

The second problem is that, when we visit your forum, we see the message "There are no published categories in ." I replied to a similar question on this subject yesterday: Problems after migration from J! 1.5 .

My bad. Did not mean to lead you astray. I took over this site from another (as one does) and I was using my poor memory of how things work. On the previous J1.6.5/k1.7 site running on my test server it shows no posts when not logged in and then shows the most recent posts after you login. I was trying to reproduce that same behavior. Well... actually I was hoping that after the upgrade the behavior would be the same.

For the second problem, I believe that was by design (also not my design), that you have to be logged in to see the forum.