No because I customized individual forum pages to display the way I wanted them to. I have to rethink the whole thing. And regardless, something I already customized should not be simply thrown away by wikidot without any warning. This is not exceptable to me.

I don't even know where to begin to fix this. I am not a code expert who can just shrug stuff like this off. It affects me significantly and it will probably take me a week to fix it to the way I want it.

with tags like

• _forumstart … a,.s.o

and than in the "forum:_template" work controlling the USING CONTENT with iftags…
iftag - _forumstart ( all other pages)
%%content%%
..
OR
iftag _forumstart
[[module ForumStart hidden=""]]
..
and all the other forum:pages can be controlled by the iftagd
( and with the SUO. snippets you can control who can see the forum pages!
.. But not the comments I think…)

EricT, if you don't edit those pages, they should work as before.

Well they weren't working as before. I had no warning so I tried to edit one which broke it further. Some of the the codes work and some of it doesn't. The rest of the stuff about tags I don't understand, Helmuti, I'm sorry but that is all beyond me.

From my perspective this is extremely frustrating. One day my pages are fine and the next day they are not and I'm locked out of them. I'm an unhappy customer right now. I don't know how to begin to fix these little problems. Apparently wikidot withholds the right to lock me out of my own pages and then the problems all mine. Fair, not. The fact that some people accidentally delete their forums should not affect all users control of their forums across the board. I'm not being stubborn here. You guys need to really understand that a large majority of your users are not tech experts and once they figure something out, sudden big changes throw them for a loop.

I do appreciate the responses though. I just don't know how to fix this. There were iFrames which no longer function. I cannot remove them. Now we see "no valid codeblock found". If I could fix that and the forum thread pages I would be happy. Well, I would be satisfied. But frankly, I beginning to think I made a massive mistake in building my site here since apparently, at the end of the day, I can lose control of it.

Yes, Eric, this is a very bad situation.
A procedure - with editing and history revisions and working since 2006 - is broken for a given categor

There is a clear point against wikidot..
dot.

My suggestion - to make it helping for you . the team could reload from a backup ( have You one done and saved?) the last revesions from last wek, or month building on a renamed renamed:forum:start page …
than we have not control over it, but the content (iframed html-code's ) are safed.
The other point is a clear brake in the usages of "special" file/pages withtheir category.
This is not a naming convention ( like no special characters) - but a complete forbidden category.
A big change - without warning too.
I had brought some customers from me to build their inner documentation here on wikidot.
Because of clear rules and a long basis of truth and relationship.

This is not good.

Really not .

Thank you for understanding.

I don't think I have a current enough backup. It was on my list of the next thing to do but my list is long. However, the "page source" is intact. It's just I can't actually edit.

To me, this is a case of sweeping a problem under the rug. People misunderstand the forum pages and so destroy their forums. I'm sure wikidot gets lots of messages about this. I'm sure it's annoying. Solution. Hide the problem away with no regard for long established sites. I expect this to be fixed. My trust has been violated by wikidot willfully breaking my pages and I see no effort to even apologize let alone address this problem. I have a lot of people in my industry asking me whether I think they should start a site here. What should I tell them? I understand "use at your own risk" but I see no effort here to prevent the fallout from this big change.

Let me break this down to the two things I need:

I need the forum category pages repaired, like this one: http://www.gustrength.com/forum/c-66481/general-strength-training

The categories are at the bottom of the page. I need them back in place.

And I would be fine with the iFrames being removed so that the error codes on all the forum pages go away. I can do without the iFrames.

What I really want, however, is to have control over my pages back. And that is what I really should have.

EricT, I can fix your forums using history, tags (thanks for hint, Helmuti) and _template, so that you don't feel upset.

Have a look on my last tests with _template and iftags:
http://helmuti-pdorf.wikidot.com/forum:_template
and the explaining text on:
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-272593/how-to-hide-for-real-the-hidden-forums#post-892021

This is what I mean with iftags - you can use in the _template not only he %%content%% variable - but make your own codings…
The SUO-include on the _template is not working ( module inside!) - that makes it a litte bit uncomfortable…

EricT, I think your forum pages should be fixed now. I changed the way the "fix" works. It verifies Forum modules are on the page without forcing actual page source. Please edit&save any broken forum pages.

EricT, please confirm your forums work now. I'm sorry for all the inconvenience.

Thank you. Yes, I edited and saved the pages and everything is good to go. That made it very simple and it took me about 5 seconds to fix everything. I do appreciate it. And sorry that I seemed upset. The site means a lot to me! This was almost like coming home and finding my living room rearranged and the furniture nailed down. I hope that this also solves the larger problem as well for wikidot.

Now I can enjoy the new newsletter feature which I was very jazzed about but it was tainted by this forum problem. Thanks for your attention to this Gabry and thank you Helmuti for all your explanation and attention to the problem. I need to learn about iftags with _templates so that is my next wikidot project and I will check those links. "How to hide for real the hidden forums" is a very welcome link.

I'm glad I could help.

EricT, I think your forum pages should be fixed now. I changed the way the "fix" works. It verifies Forum modules are on the page without forcing actual page source. Please edit&save any broken forum pages.

Yes, this sounds much better! Thanks!

Well done Piotr with this compromise - to check if the minimum of the needed modules are included….

Now the users have their rigths untouched again.

This is a good solution and I think we can live with it.

In my no-comment forum (it's on private site srhdev.wikidot.com) I want comments to have the title "Re: %%title" where %%title%% refers to the title of the thread. The code I use is:

[[image http://srhdev.wikidot.com/local--files/thread:_template/reply.jpg link="/comment:new_comment/edit/true/parentPage/%%fullname%%/title/Re: %%title%%"]]

The disadvantage of using an image, of course, is you need an image, whereas the rest of the site might use boxed text for buttons. It's more work, and it wont look right.

The new link syntax allows me to enter URL's that are delimited by "|" and therefore, theoretically, I can include spaces in them.

I see, thank you for explaining :-)

Plus, now that there are only 3 outstanding bugs, they might have a little more time on their hands to roll out some new features. Fingers crossed :)