First thing is go to the forum admin > Integration > Storage Locations.
One of the folders in there is for the smileys. Note the folder location. Also check to see if it is readable and writable using the icons beside the row.
If it is not then you will need to check the permissions on the folder. if it is check inside the folder as the smileys should be in there.

Yellow Swordfish said
First thing is go to the forum admin > Integration > Storage Locations.
One of the folders in there is for the smileys. Note the folder location. Also check to see if it is readable and writable using the icons beside the row.
If it is not then you will need to check the permissions on the folder. if it is check inside the folder as the smileys should be in there.

Thanks.. All these folders were pointing to the old simple-forum location which I had moved out of the WP-Content folder directory. So in order to get it to work, I had to move them back. I was under the assumption that the entire content of 4.5 had to be removed from the WP folders.

I’m not quite sure why v5.1 dashboard doesn’t permit me from changing the location path.  One of the options are custom folders which is in the simple-forum plugin. However, I don’t want to move that back into my WP-Content Plugins folder so it doesn’t conflict simple-forum with simple-press.  If that dashboard permited me to simply change the folder location path, it would be much easier.

There should be no trace of a ‘simple-forum’ path any longer.
Are you saying that when you try and update the storage locations admin panel it wont save?

When I moved the folders back into the WP-Content folder, the X turned to a Check mark and it worked.  So the update worked by making sure the folders were actually in the location path specified in the dashboard. What I was asking was why version 5.1 was even still pointing to the old folders to begin with.  I assumed that it would have created new folders and simply pointed to them. However, as stated above, it was still linking to the old folder paths, which obviously wasn’t there because I had removed it from the WP-Content folder before I installed 5.1.

`The update doesn’t mess with any of the storage folders where users may have placed custom items. Just continues to use the old ones.

unless during the upgrade you checked the option for us to try to move them…

I wanted to follow-up on one of my initial questions in this thread. Is there a default smiley and badge package that comes with this theme? The current badges and smileys I have were manually uploaded when I was running version 4.5. However, I’m willing to go to the traditional smiley and badge packages similar to what this forum has.  Please let me know if you guys have a downloadable zip of smileys and badges that I can simply upload via FTP and activate.

Here is a zip file of the smileys.

I am not sure what you want in regards to badges. There is no set default badges. Do you mean avatars?

Brandon C said
Here is a zip file of the smileys.

I am not sure what you want in regards to badges. There is no set default badges. Do you mean avatars?

Thank you, but I was referring to the ranking badges. The files would be under “file-badges” in the content folder. I uploaded my own and they seem to be way too large for my narrow forum. Therefore, the icon is cut off. So i think I need to use the standard badges similar to what is used on this forum.

http://inceptionradionetwork.com/forum

They look pretty big to me as well. But you could ask them if they can let you have copies of course.
basically we are happy to supply our badges to anyone who asks but they would be too big for your allowed space – although once again of course – you an change the column width to suit your needs.

After updating the Smileys to standard ones, the smileys are not appearing on the forum page. I checked the configuration in the dashboard and they appear to be good.  However, there is a blank space under Smileys when you create a post.

http://inceptionradionetwork.com/forum

do you have an example of a post where the smiley is not showing up?

and forum – integration – storage location you have two green marks for smileys?

and the smileys are listed on forum – components – smileys?

The smileys do not appear as an option anywhere on the forum when you try to reply to any existing post.  There is the wording “Smiley” which appears underneath the editor pad, but it’s completely blank.

I’m not quite sure I understand the second part of your statement.  I thought the integration and component sections were set this way by default.  Where should I make these corrections?  The smileys are inside he form-smileys folder on the server, which is what I guess the integration section was able to verify. If there are conflicts, i’m not sure where it is.

you havent actually uploaded the smileys it sounds like… you would do this on forum – components – smileys…  as well as uploading it sets up some configuration items…  you really cannot just put the smileys in the folder…