you upgraded from 4.5.0 to 5.0?  and its the latest 5.0 beta?  via svn, nightly or our download page?  build number please…

so is this a stock theme provided by us or have you made modifications?

It is build 5.0.0-7546 and the theme I am using for wordpress is the default theme “Twenty Eleven” in version 1.3. I have not activated any theme on Simple:Press, so its the default one, if that was your question.

I upgraded from 4.4.5 to 4.5 and then immediately switched to 5.0.0-7546. Via the download page.

and the link to your site?

Mr Papa said

and the link to your site?

…is in his first post

http://www.kontrasthlm.se/sf-forum/

Weird and most puzzling… especially as you don’t get to see the forums when logged in as the forum admin either.

A few questions for background:

1. Does the forum admin appear to be functioning normally?
2. Did the upgrade go smoothly or were there any abnormal events?
3. How was the V5 plugin uploaded to your server and what tools were used?

And perhaps a place to start – could you try downloading a fresh copy of the ‘default’ theme from our V5 download page and then overwriting the one that is there in the forum themes folder?

Yes, isn’t it!

I could create an admin user for you guys if you want to check it out, just let me know.

To answer the questions:

1. Yes, it looks good and everything seems to work (except that no user sees any content)

2. The upgrade to 4.5 had a little glitch, which I have experienced at previos upgrades – this one:

/support-forum/simplepress-version-4-2/simplepress-forum-can-not-create-tables-in-your-database/

This time it couldn’t be fixed with the suggested hack (which has worked before). Therefore I went straight to SP5 beta, and that upgrade went as smooth as silk.

3. I deleted all files in the simple-forum folder and uploaded the new simple-press folder via FileZilla for Mac.

4. For replacing the themes-files, where in the file-tree should I put them? I can’t find a themes folder.

You may have just said the magic word! FileZilla.

I can’t sit here and say that this is 100% the cause of the problem but it is typical of the sort of problem FileZilla does regularly cause. Before we can go any further I do recommend that you re-upload the plugin to your server using a proper and better ftp client. For the Mac I would suggest trying CyberDuck – free to use and proven (by me!).

Re-upload the entire ‘simple-press’ folder and I would suggest also re-uploading at the very least the ‘default’ theme.

If that part oif the original FileZilla upload went correctly then you will find this in /wp-content/sp-resources/forum-themes/default – if not there check the forum admin > wp integration > storage locations panel which will tell you where it is.

And then we can see if the problems persist after that.

Now I have done the following things:

1. Downloaded Cyberduck, thanks for the tip (it’s way faster and nicer) – and uninstalled FileZilla.

2. Deleted the whole simple-press folder, uploaded a new one

3. Deleted the default theme, uploaded new one

But, unfortunately all problems persist. How would you suggest to go forward? Hopefully this bugsquashing gives something in the end, for SP aswell.

The thing that keeps me calm in all this is that I know that the forum content is there (because I can see it as admin when i use the “New/Recently uptated topics”-dropdown, and that the site is for a football team (soccer to you Americans) – the football season doesnt start until April 🙂 And of course the fact that I know I’m playing with a beta version of an open source forum. Which has excellent support!

Hey,

have you set the permissions?

http://www.abload.de/img/permissionsh3kyd.jpg

Regards

I have set the permissions as in the attached image. Note that I run multiple forums (one for members and one open forum) in this install. Could that matter?

Screendump of permission settings

multiple forums?  I assume you mean one install of SP but have several forums with differing permissions for access… if so, that is fine and exactly what the permissions are for…

yes, I think we need access to the forum to see what is up…  can you pm myself and yellow swordfish a temp account that has full sp admin capabilities?

Yes, one install and several forums like you guessed.

I have now PM:ed your user accounts to you Thanks in advance!

One more thing that maybe could help in the detective work – I have this install of wordpress in a separate folder (/wordpress) while I have the index.php one level up (/) in line with this:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory I don’t know if that matters but I have learned that some plugins have trouble with “WordPress in its own directory”

Have sent you a PM on the account details.

Your permissions are indeed all wrong.

Go to Manage Permissions and modify the permission settings for the permission sets you are using. For some reason at the moment everything is turned off completely.

Now this doesn’t explain why, as an admin, you shouldn’t have access to the front page but you DO have access to the topic lists and the individual posts so that is something I need to look into my end. But I suspect getting those permissions right is the place to start.

You will also need to modify the storage location for custom icons as it is currently pointing at a folder that no longer exists.