Tonight I updated both my build of EE to the latest version and my Forum to the latest build as well. I have a modified version of the developer template running my forums, and so I had to so a bit of code work as per the instructions at “Forum Update Notes 2.0”. After completing the process I went back to discover that my forum pages were all now completely blank pages, as was my efforts to view or edit forum templates via the Module admin area.
After a restore of my old template files and a step by step redo, I discovered that the instructions may be incorrect.
In the section on Search Results near the end of this page
http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/forum/forum_update_notes_2.0.html
we read
Additionally, there are some new templates that you need to add. You will have to edit the /themes/forum_themes/theme_name/theme_search.php file directly for this addition. Just before:
} // END CLASS ?>Add the following: (long block of new code here…)
When I looked at a fresh version of the developer template from the new Forum build, I found that in fact, we would need to add the code just before
//-------------------------------------
// No Search Result Message
//------------------------------------- in order to match the newest Forum template. This is one block of code above the location indicated in the instructions.
When I did it this way instead of following the instructions, my forums came back into view and everything seems to be working…
Whew!
I thought others would want to know of my experience. Not sure if this is a bug report or an installation issue, so I posted it here.