its ok i figured it out, seems to be working fine now. Thanks for your help.

Can you tell us what the problem was?

I had the same issue. I renamed the simple-press plugin on the server to “oldsimple-press” and got my site back (minus the forum). I made a copy and downloaded it to my pc. Currently am backing up the site before I install the new WP update. Haven’t deleted the “oldsimple-press” plugin yet.

I was wondering if I could just install the new WP version and then change the plugin file name back to “simple-press” on my server. Think it would work?

Updating the WP version first is the way to upgrade any WP plugin or theme that relies on that wp version…  if the plugin or theme requires a specific version, always should be running that WP version first…

yes, leave the simple press plugin folder name changed, then update wp, then name it back…  you may have to reactivate then in the wp plugins…

Thanks, I’ll edit this post when I’m done and let you know how it worked.

we will be here…

I wasn’t able to edit the last comment – so renaming it worked out fine.

That’s great – thanks for the uodate