You need to be on 4.5.x to upgrade to V5 I am afraid so you will need to upgrade to that version as an interim. You can get that download here: https://simple-press.com/download-manager.php?id=401

Then to upgrade to V5 this article should help: http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/installation/upgrading/upgrading-version-4-5/

4.1 is a pretty old version and while the vast majority have had no problems a small few have. We can get there but please DO make database backups betwene each upgrade just in case! We can’t always easily help you if you do not.

do i delete 4.1 and insert new 4.5 or replace by throwing both up there?

i just looked at upgrading from 4.5 to 5 and its says delete 4.5 and install 5. will follow same process with 4.1 > 4.5.

well it LOOKS like it works. 😉 will kick tires for a few days. very simple to upgrade. no hitches. ty! 

Excellent. Sorry have been gone for a few hours… a late Father’s Day dinner being cooked by my youngest son!

yum! should i mention this on another thread? is there no longer an option to link a blog post to the forum?

It’s still there but now it is a plugin – see https://simple-press.com/download-plugins/ for downloading them and http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/plugin-basics/using-plugins/ for information on installing them.

btw, you guys did a really nice job building this. i don’t have a sp-resources folder inside the wp-content folder or plugins folder. i do have a resources folder inside the simple-press folder. should i start another thread? 

… When you installed Simple:Press and assuming a successful install, a new folder was created under your WordPress /wp-content folder named /sp-resources. This is turn should contain a series of sub-folders that will hold various SP components. Assuming all is well there will be a sub-folder named /forum-plugins and this is the default location for all Simple:Press plugins.

You don’t? Then you should have had a message at the end of the upgrade explaining the issue? Did you see that?

if it is not there then it means that the permissions on your server were not open enough for us to do it. You will need to go o the forum admin > storage locations and manually create the necessary folders.

Hold on though – that would mean you also have no SP theme so you will need to download that as well…

Odd and most uncommon.

i have green checks on all items with exception of red x on custom icons folder. in line item plugins folder i have this info = wp-content/sp-resources/forum-plugins

Sounds like you plugins folder is fine and in the correct place.

The custom icons folder is usually in wp-content/sp-resources/forum-custom-icons where does it say it is now? I usually create a wp-content/sp-resources/forum-custom-icons folder and then change the settings in SP admin locations to point to that folder.

here’s the custom icon file path per admin…

wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/custom

wait ! i was about to use cpanel to look at files. i have been looking via ftp client. i killed and restarted my ftp client and low and behold the sp-resources folder is there !

regarding post #13…

rhere’s the custom icon red x file path per admin…

wp-content/plugins/simple-forum/styles/icons/default/custom

here’s what’s really up there…

wp-content/plugins/simple-press/styles/icons/default/custom

what do i do ? edit the path in admin to match what’s up there ?